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Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible.

From	Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible.
Date	2019-05-21 14:40 +0200
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On 5/20/19 10:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 5/20/19 2:55 PM, R. Ramesh wrote:
>> I created a fresh install of debian stretch amd64. In that I created a 
>> qemu/kvm guess install of win8. It only accepted hda as a valid sound card. 
>> All others show us without drivers. So, I am limited to only HDA as -soundhw. 
>> Further HDA sounds so broken if I try to test with any sound file or youtube 
>> video. It is grainy/distorted and outright horrible.
>>
>> Google searches mentions something about MSI and those approaches are simply 
>> not accepted by win8. So, I could not use them. I am wondering if there is 
>> something fundamentally wrong with windows guests or is there a setting that 
>> I missing.
>>
>> Ramesh
Have you tried spice under Virtual Machine manager?  I used to have similar 
problems.  Let all 6 cores run at maximum speed helped some but still occasional 
dropouts in Win7 and Win10.  I switched to spice and audio and video improved 
greatly.
-- 


*...Bob*

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kvm win8 gues audio is terrible. "R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net> - 2019-05-17 07:30 +0200
  kvm win8 guest audio is terrible. "R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net> - 2019-05-21 00:20 +0200
    Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-05-21 04:40 +0200
      Re: kvm win8 guest audio is terrible. Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2019-05-21 14:40 +0200

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