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  1. Bug #635703
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 635703

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David Ayers (ayers) wrote :

Hello Serge,

I can confirm that adding a SDL graphics device in the VM configuration and removing the vnc device I was able to hear the sound.

So if virt-manager disables sound in its VNC device due to security issues and SDL only works locally, then there is currently no support for remote sound. It seems that upstream virt-manager has added support for spice: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html but since I have not seen any spice packages in either ubuntu or debian, I fear it will take the order of a few years before those features will hit an LTS release, which is rather unfortunate.

BTW: closing the SDL window will turn the VM off hard. Is that expected behavior or should that be reported as a bug?