Bug 520228

Summary: Sound from a KVM guest too choppy; goes off after a while
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Amit Shah <amit.shah>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: amit.shah, awilliam, lkundrak, lpoetter, wtogami
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Description Amit Shah 2009-08-29 10:23:42 UTC
Created attachment 359139 [details]
pacmd 'ls' output

Description of problem:
KVM supports alsa as a driver and emulates the ac97 sound card. Playing sound inside the guest results in very choppy output at first. After a while, it's completely gone for a few seconds before it comes back for a brief while and goes back.

Attaching pacmd 'ls' output at the time of playing the sound.

Some /var/log/messages output at the time this happened:

Aug 29 15:41:15 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal latency to 16.00 ms
Aug 29 15:42:17 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 16.00 ms
Aug 29 15:43:15 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 7.98 ms
Aug 29 15:47:32 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 7.98 ms
Aug 29 15:47:37 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 8.00 ms
Aug 29 15:47:38 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing minimal latency to 26.00 ms
Aug 29 15:48:19 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 8.00 ms
Aug 29 15:48:44 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 15.99 ms
Aug 29 15:49:01 amit-x200 pulseaudio[2311]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 26.00 ms

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2009-10-20 19:43:00 UTC
is this still the case with the latest F11 kernel? for clarity, are you running F11 as both the host and guest OS?

can we get pulseaudio -vvvv output when the issue happens? run:

pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -vvvv

in a console, it will run pa in that console with verbose information, attach that output. thanks!

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