[Bug 1906184] Re: Lots of stuttering/crackling in guest sound

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[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Lots of stuttering/crackling in guest sound

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  When listening to music (e.g. with VLC) or watching Youtube on the
  guest, there's lots of stuttering and crackling in the sound.

  
  Tested with the following QEMU start commands:

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 6G -cpu host -smp 3 -cdrom
  ./linux/kubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -vga virtio -soundhw
  hda -display sdl,gl=on

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 6G -cpu host -smp 3 -cdrom
  ./linux/kubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -vga qxl -soundhw hda
  -display sdl

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 6G -cpu host -smp 3 -cdrom
  ./linux/kubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -vga qxl -soundhw hda
  -display gtk

  
  If I use the following command (QXL graphics, "remote" access via SPICE over 
unix socket), stuttering is not completely gone but MUCH less annoying:

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 6G -cpu host -smp 3 -cdrom
  ./linux/kubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -soundhw hda -vga qxl
  -device virtio-serial-pci -device
  virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -chardev
  spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent -spice
  unix,addr=/tmp/vm_spice.socket,disable-ticketing

  and this command for accessing the VM:
  remote-viewer spice+unix:///tmp/vm_spice.socket 


  Guest: Kubuntu 20.04 64-bit (live), but occurs with many other as well
  Host: Arch Linux, with KDE desktop
  CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 (4 cores + hyperthreading)
  RAM: 16 GB
  GPU: Nvidia GTX 980 Ti

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