by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, 5 comments
UPDATE: Fixed and signed qxl video drivers Hi all, Yesterday I promised to post how I was able to get sound working with KVM / libvirt and the Spice client with Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Here you go First, get your spice client set up wherever you are going to run virt-manager. On the [...]
by Jason L Froebe on February 9, 2013, 2 comments
Finally got sound working in a Windows 7 64bit KVM virtual machine with Spice. There are a few conditions for it to work: ICH6 audio Spice guest drivers installed NOT VNC QXL video QXL driver (64bit) Since I’m using Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit, I had to build and digitally sign the driver. Not difficult at [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 7, 2011, no comments
This assumes that your host machine has a sound card! Add the args line in your /etc/qemu-server/<vm id>.conf file should give you sound: args: -soundhw On my Proxmox VE 1.8, I have several virtual audio devices available. I’ve had the best luck with ac97 with Windows XP/Vista and Win7. red:/etc/qemu-server# kvm -soundhw ‘?’ Valid sound [...]
by Jason L Froebe on March 10, 2010, 6 comments
I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses. Same file was marked clean on another box. So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]
by Jason L Froebe on December 21, 2009, 12 comments
I was very much surprised just how easy it is to convert a Microsoft Windows 7 laptop into a virtual machine running within Sun’s VirtualBox. This is what I did: Pull the hard drive from the laptop. On my Dell Latitude, it was simply unscrewing the two screws on the bottom of the laptop marked [...]