ac97 does not appear in user interface
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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virt-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: virt-manager
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ apt-cache policy virt-manager
virt-manager:
Installed: 0.6.1-1ubuntu4
Candidate: 0.6.1-1ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 0.6.1-1ubuntu4 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
What I expected to happen:
I expected to select "ac97" from the drop-down list of available sound devices.
(start virt-manager -> select virtual machine -> go to hardware tab -> click add hardware button -> select sound from the hardware device drop-down list -> click next -> try to select "ac97" from the drop-down list)
What happened instead:
Instead, only es1370, pcspk, and sb16 were chosen.
Why this was inconvenient for me:
I'm a student, and the only version of Windows I can get for free is Windows Server 2008, but there are no drivers for that operating system for es1370 or sb16.
Work-around:
Start kvm from the command line and pass the -soundhw ac97 option to get sound working in Windows Server 2008 (probably works for Vista as well).
Also:
This could be a libvirt issue. Probably it's a very small patch. In fact, it may even be upstream already. I'll look.
So, ac97 support was added to libvirt in 0.6.2 which was released on 3 April 2009.