https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201994 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201994#c1 James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |erwin.pacua@gmail.com, | |jfehlig@suse.com Flags| |needinfo?(erwin.pacua@gmail | |.com) --- Comment #1 from James Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com> --- (In reply to Erwin Pacua from comment #0)

On OpenSUSE 15.3, the xl toolstack is able to emulate an audio device on a domU using the parameter:

soundhw="ac97"

and I can use the audio device no prob.

Since I've reinstalled to 15.4, that parameter is now deprecated and is now replaced by "device=..." as per log file

[root@pc1:/var/log/xen]# cat qemu-dm-winxp.log qemu-system-i386: warning: '-soundhw ac97' is deprecated, please use '-device AC97' instead audio: warning: Using timer based audio emulation

So I went ahead and tried the new parameter to no effect.

Why is it that the man page for xl.cfg still mentions soundhw= if that is no longer supported?

The message is from qemu, and it is only a deprecation warning. '-soundhw ac97' still works, but '-device AC97' is preferred. Is it not working for you?

So I tried different combinations of: audiodev = "pa,id=snd0" device = "AC97" # ...and ac97. I also tried device=["ac97"] audio = "ac97"

The xl.cfg setting will not change. soundhw="ac97" should continue to work as is. What needs to change is how libxl invokes qemu when soundhw= is specified in a xl.cfg file. Instead of invoking qemu with '-soundhw <valid-sounddev-name>' it should use '-device <valid-sounddev-name>'. For cases where libxl has not yet switched from a deprecated qemu option, or cases where libxl does not support a qemu option, libxl does support passing arbitrary options to qemu using the 'device_model_args' xl.cfg setting. E.g. in your case you could comment the soundhw setting and instead use device_model_args = [ "-device", "AC97" ] That should silence the qemu warning. In the meantime we'll need to work with the upstream Xen community to change libxl.

I also tried vsnd and followed the exact sample as per xl.cfg man page. vsnd = [ ['CARD, short-name=Main, sample-formats=s16_le;s8;u32_be', 'PCM, name=Main', 'STREAM, id=0, type=p', ] ]

Virtual sounds cards are not the same as emulated ones. I doubt WinXP supports any virtual sound cards, but I'm sure it has a driver for the Intel AC-97.

but the id=0 failed big time saying it is not valid. wtf???

It's ok, calm down :-). The message is only a deprecation warning and things should continue to work as usual. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.