Running Rocky 10 on a robust host and have a running Rocky10 vm via qemu-kvm. VM works well except for audio. Sound works on the host. Making changes in a clone so I don’t mess up the master. Regardless of sound device I select in virt-manager and the guest, I’ve no joy. Have read quite a few articles of similar problems but they were with Windows vms. Any tricks or tips to get audio out of the Rocky10 vm?
For audio, you can connect with Grome Remote Desktop, configured by the panel inside the Virtual Machine (no share). You need Remmina or Connections as a client on the host Rocky 10 Desktop. This is good if you use GNOME. If you use Xfce/KDE, you can use the Thinlinc Solution, with the tl-server inside the VM. As a receiver client app, you can install tlclient or easily use the browser via the agent (noVNC).
This reminds me of how much I miss Spice. I really like RL because it is 1:1 but for KVM/qemu for desktop use, I have debated switching to Alma as they reverted the Spice removal from RHEL. I chose Rocky though because 1:1 is more important to me.
Red Hat removing Spice, to me, is one of the worst decisions for users of qemu-kvm for desktops. Spice just worked. You now need to use a remote access solution to the VM OS directly that is specifc to each VM/OS(Windows/Linux) instead of something that talks with kvm/qemu directly. With Spice, using Virtual Manager was a one stop solution to get a desktop view of a VM with audio, clipboard, accelerated graphics, etc for all VMs regardless of their OS.
Other very useful features also gone like USB passthrough that was much easier to manage and didn’t have issues if the device isn’t plugged in on bootup, Included clipboard sharing, Faster accelerated graphics driver, SSH passthrough worked great with Spice too using Virtual Manager to manage remote KVM/qemu hosts and still get audio.
Oh how I remember the good old days before RH axed Spice.
ah .. for KDE there is KRDP, i’m trying it .
The trouble that i have is this : the app-org.kde.krdpserver start only with user logged not at boot, and need a different user.
I’m testing it on fedora-kde 44