Looking through old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU and a recent guest kernel? Or could we close this ticket nowadays?
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1222034 Title: QEMU + SPICE + AUDIO = FAILURE Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: Hello it's my first time doing this, since the major round of timer/block changes in August I have not been able to have audio working in any guest with the spice protocol. 64 bit linux , AMD SVM, IOMMUv1 ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Example command line: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -cdrom Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_x86_Xfce.iso -soundhw hda -vga qxl -spice port=5999,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing -enable-kvm -device virtio-serial-pci -device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent Any time the guest tries to access the emulated hardware it will hang for a very long period of time and play no audio through spice. It doesn't seem to matter what guest (x86_64 or x86) I run (the above is just one example) and it also doesn't matter what sound hardware I choose to emulate or which command line method I use to specify it (ie -soundhw doesn't work and neither does -device) or whether a vdagent service has been configured correctly inside the guest or not. This issue does not happen with the 1.6.0 release. If you are unable to replicate this I will go to the trouble of getting the race message that happens in the guest but I am assuming at this point that my configuration is not exotic and it should be very easy to see the issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1222034/+subscriptions