Looking through old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU? 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/1313816 Title: qemu should close sound device when no more needs. Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I use alsa directly or via pulseaudio on qemu. And I use xmms2 as well as qemu. When I use alsa, one of xmms2 or qemu can play sound. When I use pulseaudio with qemu and pulseaudio -k, and pulseaudio --start, qemu can't play sound. I think that: - qemu should open sound device when needs. - qemu should close sound device when no more needs. One of xmms2 or qemu can play sound, but both of them rarely play sound at the same time. qemu occurs error on pulseaudio -k, but once close and open the device, the error will be recovered, I hope. Host: slackware64 14.1, linux kernel 3.14.2 Qemu: 2.0.0 QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda /dosc/win8_x64.img -soundhw hda -boot c -m 2G -cpu host -usb -usbdevice tablet -display sdl -rtc base=localtime Guest: Windows 8.1 x64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1313816/+subscriptions