No Sound card?

[itimpi]

I have Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 VMs which I access via RDP.  When I try and edit the settings it does not seem that I can add a sound card (the only option in the drop-down is "None".  I simply want an emulated sound card - I do not want to pass a real one through.  Any way to achieve this? 

 

EDIT: 

It appears that for 64-bit version of Windows you can add the line

<sound model='ich6'/>

to the devices section of the XML and you will have an emulated device for which there are 64-bit drivers.  The other sound devices supported by KVM appear to not have 64-bit drivers. 

 

A problem is that as it has to be done via editing the XML file if you subsequently use the "Edit" option via the GUI you can lose this setting.  I would have thought I should be able to select one of the KVM emulated sound card options via the unRAID VM Manager GUI?  Also it would be useful if the GUI Edit option did not remove valid XML entries that it does not directly support so that hand edits of the XML do not get lost.

 

[BobPhoenix]

...it would be useful if the GUI Edit option did not remove valid XML entries that it does not directly support so that hand edits of the XML do not get lost.

I asked for this too but all they said they would do is add a warning that custom edits to the XML would be lost when selecting the edit option.  Not sure the warning has even made it in yet.

[jonp]

I will test emulated sound and if solid, we can add it.

 

Supporting XML edits persisting after non XML edits are performed is not a high priority right now. It would take a significant coding effort to put that in place and there are more pressing items for us at this time.  I will check on adding a warning to the XML edit page though.

[itimpi]

I will test emulated sound and if solid, we can add it.

Great.  I am actually using the VM's to test streaming wirelessly to AirTame dongles.  I need a sound card emulated in the VM for sound to be available to stream.  Now that I have added the ich6 device then I am getting sound streamed as well as the video from my VM's

 

I am not sure whether adding any of the older cards that only have 32-bit drivers should also be considered?  It might be something one would want if you are trying to run an old version of an OS for some reason.  It is quite likely that emulation of such cards on KVM is well tried-and-tested for legacy reasons although no longer of much use.

 

If you decide that you do not want to add the support to the unRAID VM Manager maybe you should at least include some reference to how to solve the sound issue in the online documentation?

 

Supporting XML edits persisting after non XML edits are performed is not a high priority right now. It would take a significant coding effort to put that in place and there are more pressing items for us at this time.  I will check on adding a warning to the XML edit page though.

I thought that might be the answer.  However unless we keep asking for it it is always going to be unlikely to make the priority list.

[BobPhoenix]

Supporting XML edits persisting after non XML edits are performed is not a high priority right now. It would take a significant coding effort to put that in place and there are more pressing items for us at this time.  I will check on adding a warning to the XML edit page though.

I thought that might be the answer.  However unless we keep asking for it it is always going to be unlikely to make the priority list.

I'm just glad it is now a low priority now instead of no chance at all (my impression from last discussion I took part in).