Thanks for that reminder, Avi. You are right - it would be best to not be running kvm as root or with any special capabilities. I mainly wanted to report back that I got the sound working by switching to PulseAudio. I made the other changes so I would not have to run kvm as root and it would see the environment variable. When I run without that capability, it seems that kvm cannot create the tun device. I will do more research and if I can't find the information I need, I'll start a new thread.
> ----------------------------- Jimmy Crossley CoNetrix Sentry Plaza III 5214 68th Street, Suite 200 Lubbock, TX 79424 jcross...@conetrix.com https://www.CoNetrix.com Telephone: 806-687-8600 Toll Free: 800-356-6568 Fax: 806-687-8511 This e-mail message (and attachments) may contain confidential CoNetrix information. If you are not the intended recipient, you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return e-mail immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to official business are neither given nor endorsed by CoNetrix. -----Original Message----- > From: Avi Kivity [mailto:a...@redhat.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 04:21 > To: Jimmy Crossley > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: SOLVED: RE: Garbled audio - Windows 7 64 bit guest on Debian > > On 06/18/2012 10:32 PM, Jimmy Crossley wrote: > > > > I have mostly solved this issue. The sound works much, much, better, but > > is still not as good as > on my host machine. > > > > I installed PulseAudio and used it instead of ALSA. In order to get kvm to > > use it, I set the > environment variable QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa. I had been using sudo to start the > VM, and that kept this > environment variable from being used. I did a "sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep > /usr/bin/kvm" in order > to be able to run kvm under a normal user account. Now the sound works quite > well. > > > > That is good to hear. But you are giving up on a lot of security if > you're running kvm as root (or with CAP_NET_ADMIN). qemu supports > setting up the network externally and running with no special privileges. > > Of course, it may not matter for your use case. > > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
