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Oracle VM x86, enable audio to guests

user13379246Jan 19 2012 — edited Jan 23 2012
Hi, we have one x86 server Sun Fire X4170 M2 and Oracle VM Server 2.2.1 installed in it.
We want to enable audio in a guest hosted by this server.

We saw that the qemu command
*/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm -help*
doesn't show the option
soundhw

If we are right, this is the option needed for enabling audio in guests
(from /etc/xen/xmexample.hvm)
# enable sound card support, [sb16|es1370|all|..,..], default none
#soundhw='sb16'

When we change the guest's .vm file adding the soundhw option and create the domain, we receive error messages
*[root@ovm ~]# xm create /PATH/running_pool/11_GUEST/vm.cfg*
Using config file "/PATH/running_pool/11_GUEST/vm.cfg".
Error: Domain '11_GUESTS' already exists with ID '19'

*[root@ovmserver ~]# vi /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-11_GUEST.log*
domid: 18
qemu: the number of cpus is 1
/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm: invalid option -- '-soundhw'

Additionally we tested all the possible values for soundhw (ich6, ac97, es1370, sb16, pcspk), but (as we expected) none worked.

Has somebody enabled audio for guests in a similar scenario?

Thanks in advance.
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