AC97 sound card crashes QEMU
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QEMU |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The AC97 sound card does not work. It stops QEMU on startup. The cause appears to be some kind of deadlock.
Steps to reproduce:
Just add -soundhw ac97 to QEMU's arguments. Example: qemu-system-ppc -soundhw ac97
The example above is all it takes to reproduce the problem.
This problem has been observed on Mac OS X and Debian Linux.
I question whether the ac97 support ever worked. It is a file that was taken from VirtualBox and added to QEMU. I do know that VirtualBox's support for the ac97 sound card works perfectly.
The exact line of code that stops QEMU in its tracks is located in the file main-loop.c, in the function os_host_
Changed in qemu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This problem also affects qemu-system-i386.