Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Question about KVM and PC speaker

[malc]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:

> malc wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> > 
> > > Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > > > Moreover, does sound work at all with your qemu?
> > > > The image I tried [1] issues two beeps after loading (obviously via
> > > > direct hw access) - a good way to check general support. Note that one
> > > > reason for broken host sound with qemu can be OSS. For that reason I
> > > > always configure my qemu with --audio-drv-list=alsa.
> > > 
> > > Thats a good hint :)
> > > Seems i used to compile qemu without "--audio-drv-list". Since "dsound"
> > > and
> > > "fmod" drivers don't compile here (i likely miss some libs in my mingw), i
> > > used "sdl".
> > 
> > Don't do that. Here's a nice tutorial Kazu made that will probably help you:
> > http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/Audio-en.html
> 
> So you're saying the use of sdl for audio is not recommended?

Yes.

> 
> > > Now i can hear those two beeps with the image you suggested. Tho those are
> > > coming
> > > thru my sound card and not the hosts pc speaker (even with "-soundhw
> > > pcspk",
> > > but maybe
> > > that option means something different).
> > 
> > And it will always come through your soundcard. pcspk is not a passthrough
> > thing.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> >> With INT 10h AH=0Eh i now can hear a beep too, but it doesn't stop and qemu
> > > somewhat freezes.
> > 
> > Huh?
> 
> With this INT 10h function qemu should beep once, but it does loop the beep
> infinitely.
> Normally i can exit qemu by clicking on the [x] window close "icon", but while
> it does
> endlessly beep that doesn't work (vista says process doesn't respond). Using
> "quit" in the
> monitor window doesn't work either.
> 

Can you post some .com file sparing me from writing the code for one
myself?

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