Re: [orca-list] Virtualisation software that works well with Orca

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Hi Janina,

Yes, I'm getting sound from within a vm. I mostly use VMs to install/test 
different versions of SLED and sometimes openSUSE, but I've set up a win10 
vm before, and I believe I had NVDA installed there. Here is part of a 
script that I use to launch it:

if [ x"$1" == "xwin10" ]; then
  qemu-kvm -m 4096 -soundhw hda -usb -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device e1000,netdev=mynet0 -display gtk -hda 
$1.img
  # if installing, add: -cdrom win10.iso
fi

That being said, I see from another thread that you have a rather 
complicated sound setup, so I don't know if that would do exactly what you 
want, but, regardless, it might be worth experimenting with it.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:

> All the complexity with sound on Linux has kept me away from graphical
> vms hosted on Linux. I had very few issues with sound on my Mac Airbook
> using VMware.
>
> So, I'm very interested to hear Mike propose qemu. I know that's very
> reliable for console clients. But, Mike, are you actually getting sound,
> including TTS, from qemu guest vms? Can you run NVDA in a Windows guest
> on a Linux qemu host, for instance?
>
> Janina