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Proxmox audio for all guests solution? (bugs.debian.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been attempting to get audio to work across all guests in Proxmox. While I can probably physically attach a soundcard to each guest, I'd need multiple and I'd need to keep fiddling each time I started a guest.

Apparently with a command line argument, qemu can provide audio support through the host, so I figured that using pipewire to co-ordinate this would be the easiest way forward, except it turns out that it's a (GUI) user space process, which doesn't make sense on a server with no GUI users.

There's a Debian server package apparently specifically for this, but it doesn't appear to work and my (linked) bug report doesn't seem to have been noticed, let alone fixed.

How do you do audio across multiple guests?

Note, new Proxmox user, ancient Debian user. Use case: single user virtual workstation environment to replace the VMware system I've been using since 2009. (The hardware failed and VMware is now owned by people who are not interested in me as a customer.)

Edit:

Just to be explicit, any working audio would be great, preferably a system that doesn't require special drivers in the guest, since I'm also running ancient operating systems on this host, not to mention, experimental ones alongside my main virtual workstation.

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[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Spice may be your best bet. I think it supports audio.

*Might be a good starting point https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/noob-guide-to-getting-audio-to-work-in-linux-guests.127369/

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In my adventures I did look at this, but it appears to require that you install support for this inside the guest, which is possible for modern guests, but not for ancient ones like say Debian Wheezy or Win98se.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ancient yeah, haha. Glaces at win311 and slackware 2.3 VMs. But yeah it does require guest addons but is probably going to be the closest to built in support you're going to find. I think there is a novnc audio project but have no idea what state that's in and what you'd have to do to roll it into the Proxmox novpn version.