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#virsh dumpxml Win7-i386
<domain type='kvm' id='2'>
  <name>Win7-i386</name>
  <uuid>028d4292-7a0f-cd82-f4cb-d9f286d14030</uuid>
  <memory>2097152</memory>
  <currentMemory>2097152</currentMemory>
  <vcpu>4</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel6.0.0'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <pae/>
  </features>
  <clock offset='localtime'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/Win7-i386.img'/>
      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
      <alias name='ide0-0-0'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
      <readonly/>
      <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
      <alias name='ide0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:8c:30:9a'/>
      <source network='default'/>
      <target dev='vnet1'/>
      <alias name='net0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
      <target port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
      <target port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>
    <input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
      <alias name='input0'/>
    </input>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='yes'/>
    <sound model='ac97'>
      <alias name='sound0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </sound>
    <video>
      <model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <alias name='balloon0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux'>
    <label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c38,c908</label>
    <imagelabel>system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c38,c908</imagelabel>
  </seclabel>
</domain>

You have no audio device in your guest XML, so no audio device will be created in the guest.  If you want an audio device, you have to edit the guest XML to create one.  However, see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems#Audio_output

I'm closing this BZ as not a bug.  BZ 595880 is already open requesting better audio support.

Oops, my bad.  Now I'm embarassed; how did I miss that <sound> section...reopening.

Could you also paste the qemu command line according to the XML? you can get it in "/var/log/qemu/$domain.log". and also try to check if there is some error log in "/var/log/message", if so, paste it please. Thanks.

- Osier

Created attachment 462232 [details]
two logs

Hi Osier,
   Put the log(/var/log/libvirt/qemu/win7-.log and /var/log/message) in the attachment, please check it.

[quote]
# QEMU implements an extension for providing audio over a VNC connection,
# though if your VNC client does not support it, your only chance for getting
# sound output is through regular audio backends. By default, libvirt will
# disable all QEMU sound backends if using VNC, since they can cause
# permissions issues. Enabling this option will make libvirtd honor the
# QEMU_AUDIO_DRV environment variable when using VNC.
#
# vnc_allow_host_audio = 0
[/quote]

That's why "QEMU_AUDIO_DRV" is set to "none" in qemu command line. Though you can turn "vnc_allow_host_audio" on by set it to "1", but it's not encouraged for avoiding the security issues. and actually even if you turn it on, it probly still don't work for the permission problems.

IMHO, the best idea to solve this problem is improve gtk-vnc to support the qemu extenstion.

- Osier

I am missing the part where gtk-vnc in involved.  Excuse my ignorance if I missing something obvious.

After rereading this, is the issue that gtk-vnc is not forwarding audio?  I just want to be clear what is actually being fixed so I am testing the right thing.