Hi Dorothy This sounds more like a guest problem - you could probably find more help on the quickemu Discord or looking through github issues/discussions.
It's been a while but changes to Opencore or qemu settings can break audio and other things. Spice probably isn't redirecting your usb keyboard/mouse - normally it just sends the input to the emulated guest hardware. It also does this for audio. I have had OSX Catalina with working sound, and it breaks with Opencore/boot or other changes to the virtual hardware. Qemu/quickemu and Opencore have to map the intel-hda guest machine "sound card" into something Catalina can use. I have used USB redirection with Catalina - but you need to make sure Catalina has drivers/kexts for the USB hardware. Just getting USB working in Catalina was a challenge before - maybe that's been fixed. These were virtual machine/guest settings for usb-ochi/ehci/xhci. On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 3:09 AM Victor Toso <victort...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Dorothy, > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 12:57:49PM GMT, Dorothy Calhoon wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I use spice to redirect the usb ports from my POPos host to my > > Mac Catalina operating system in my QEMU virtual machine which > > was set up using quickemu and now is accessed via quickgui. > > Spice works fine for redirecting the keyboard, mouse, wifi and > > printer. Now I need it for audio. > > SPICE supports playback and record audio channels. Playback is > audio coming from the Guest to your Client and Record is client's > microphone to redirect to the guest. > > If you already uses usbredir channel, chances are that your spice > client already supports playback/record too. Which spice client > are you using? > > > I know that audio has been a problem in virtual machines with > > Mac operating systems later than Catalina, but it is supposed > > to work in Catalina. > > If you are using spice-gtk, the audio backend should be gstreamer > and the right plugins need to be installed > > > I have a small speaker that plugs into the guest via a usb port > > but it is not recognized. I also tried headphones in the audio > > out ports and still Preferences show nothing for sound and > > there is none. > > > > I understand that spice can allow the audio sound card from the > > host to pass through to the guest. How do I implement that > > feature? Somewhere I read that inputting the following into the > > host terminal would do it: QEMU_AUDIO_DRV= spice. However, > > terminal did nothing and just wanted more instructions. The > > directions I had found said that after this command you could > > then use -soundhw hda options. However, terminal does not > > recognize soundhw and I wasn’t sure exactly what the “options" > > were. > > > > I also tried -audiodev spice,id=id[,prop[=value][,….]] and the > > terminal said that the audiodev command was not found. > > I'm not familiar with quickemu nor quickgui, but again, if you > are already using some spice channels, I'd guess the problem is > on the client-side. > > > It appears that there are just a couple of commands that would > > allow the audio passthrough feature of spice to work, but I > > don’t know exactly what they are. I am new to using terminal so > > I need very precise instructions. I would appreciate your help > > in this. > > > > Thanking you in advance. > > > > Dorothy > > Cheers, > Victor >
