No sound in qemu

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I’m running the latest nightly in qemu. Everything works nicely except the sound.

My qemu config:

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 2 -vga virtio -drive “file=haiku.qcow2,format=qcow2” -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci -device AC97 -usb -device usb-tablet

qemu runs on a late 2012 Apple Mac Mini with Intel HDA based on Cirrus Logic CS4206 chip.

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I’d try with another audio device, HDA (ich6) for example.

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Tried with HDA too but the same result :disappointed:

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the correct parameter is “-soundhw ac97”.

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Thanks but I changed it because it’s deprecated (qemu 7.0.0):

qemu-system-x86_64: warning: ‘-soundhw ac97’ is deprecated, please use ‘-device AC97’ instead

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Regarding sound, I have these two options on my Haiku VM: -device hda -device hda-duplex and I do have sound from the VM working.
However I’m using kvm on Linux.

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Thanks for the tip! I switched to KVM and the sound issue automagically got solved without any kind of configuration :slight_smile: