Any ideas? The error message is... sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem sdl: Reason: No available audio device audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver
I get this both with a Gentoo guest... #!/bin/bash qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \ -cpu host -display gtk \ -drive file=gentoo32.img,format=raw \ -drive file=linuxswap.img,format=raw \ -net nic,model=virtio \ -rtc base=localtime,clock=host \ -net user,hostname=gentoovm,hostfwd=tcp::2022-:22 \ -m 3G -name "Gentoo VM" \ -soundhw sb16 -parallel none \ ${@} ...and an OS/2 Warp 4 guest... #!/bin/bash qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \ -cpu coreduo -monitor vc \ -drive file=os2.img,format=raw \ -net nic,model=pcnet \ -m size=64 -name "OS/2 VM" \ -soundhw sb16 -vga std \ ${@} On the host, from "emerge -pv qemu"... app-emulation/qemu-2.4.1-r2::gentoo USE="aio alsa curl fdt gtk gtk2 jpeg ncurses opengl pin-upstream-blobs png sdl sdl2 ssh threads usb vhost-net vnc -accessibility -bluetooth -caps -debug -filecaps (-glusterfs) -infiniband -iscsi -lzo -nfs -nls -numa -pulseaudio -python -rbd -sasl -seccomp (-selinux) -smartcard -snappy -spice -static -static-softmmu -static-user -systemtap -tci {-test} -tls -usbredir -uuid -vde -virtfs -vte -xattr -xen -xfs" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications