How to enable sound In Qemu

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pokepat6
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How to enable sound In Qemu

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Hi

I just noticed that my Qemu Mac OS vm has no sound. If I check system preferences it says I have no speakers and the volume is on mute and can't be changed. I don't know how to fix it so help would be appreciated.

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Re: How to enable sound In Qemu

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Hi,

Sound is not supported when running qemu-system-ppc built from the official source.
For Windows hosts, we provide a sound-enabled build here under experimental builds:

viewtopic.php?t=9028

Please note sound only works reasonably well in Mac OS 9.x and 10.0/10.1 guests. Above that, sound becomes less perfect.

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Re: How to enable sound In Qemu

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Q: Why do we use emulators?
A: To play old games!
Q: What is a game without sounds?

Well, at https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/pp ... mu-for-osx all MacOS guest systems are marked as sound enabled!
Sound works well with MacOS9/Qemu5.2 Screamer on X.14 and XII. Will there be a screamer version for Qemu 6?
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Re: How to enable sound In Qemu

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Already Qemu 7 is in the making. There will be new builds when it arrives ;-)

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Re: How to enable sound In Qemu

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I thought Mark seemed extra busy chasing down potential bugs recently :)

I take it the issues with snapshots have been resolved?
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Re: How to enable sound In Qemu

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Cat_7 wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 7:04 am Hi,

Sound is not supported when running qemu-system-ppc built from the official source.
For Windows hosts, we provide a sound-enabled build here under experimental builds:

viewtopic.php?t=9028

Please note sound only works reasonably well in Mac OS 9.x and 10.0/10.1 guests. Above that, sound becomes less perfect.

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Cat_7
Well, let's hope that changes. Maybe if QEMU adds support for the sound card that this emulates, it could work.
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