Bug 481619

Summary:	Adding ac97-module (from qemu-repo)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stefan Neufeind <redhat>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	berrange, dwmw2, gcosta, markmc, virt-maint
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Description Stefan Neufeind 2009-01-26 18:48:49 UTC

Windows Vista works fine in a qemu-kvm-enviroment. However the supported two (virtual) soundcards are "that old" that no drivers for Vista seem to exist. VirtualBox, to what I heard, works by using an emulated ac97-soundcard. Since VirtualBox is based on qemu there is also ac97-driver in the qemu-repo (as provided by VirtualBox). Maybe it would be possible to (try) to include that in a next build, so another soundcard exists as an option and maybe makes e.g. Windows Vista work even with sound out of the box?

Comment 1 Stefan Neufeind 2009-03-03 19:57:19 UTC

FYI - kvm-84 adds ac97 by default:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg10585.html

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2009-03-11 13:11:45 UTC

The QEMU source tree in Fedora 10 is too old to support the ac97 soundcard. We could however turn it on in the KVM package without much trouble.

Fedora 11/rawhide already has ac97 enabled by default for QEMU & KVM.

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2009-03-20 17:37:44 UTC

Okay, lets just close this as "fixed in F11" then