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KVM/QEMU audio question (probably RTFM)



On 11/28/2008 04:47 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> One other bit about sound. I'm reinstalling windows vista using=20
> kvm/qemu and I'm going through this painful two stage install.=20
> (Windows home first, then business second as an update to home...)=20
> Sound never worked under home, but once the business version was=20
> installed, the virtual system recognized the "sound card". At that=20
> point I was able to hear the various click/action sounds snips of=20
> windows. So you may have to make sure WVUltimate has all its updates=20
> so that it installs the right sound driver on the windows side....
I just installed Windows XP under KVM, and it did come up with sound.=20
One issue is that the install from DVD failed,, but I then reinstalled=20
from the iso and it succeeded. So, AFAIK, KVM works ok. One of the=20
reasons for my having Windows installed is that I can easily backup my=20
blackberry. There is no good Blackberry sync software on Linux yet (I've =

looked as Barry and Funambol).  So, at this time, things seem to be ok.=20
I'll try to reinstall Windows Vista again and see if it comes up with=20
sound.

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