At this point I don't know where the problem lies. When I follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log
I don't see any attemps to connect by qemu. (Should I?) I've disabled seccomp (which I think is disabled by default), allowed all capabilities in the apparmor profile, and checked that /dev/snd/* is allowed by cgroups and the qemu process runs with full capabilities (in /proc/$$/status) as user serge:serge and once as serge:kvm (as a test). I wrapped qemu in a sh script which runs it under strace -f. The strace output is attached here. Note that the EACCES for opening /dev/shm/pulse* is for files owned by root - the files owned by serge were able to be opened. I see an attempt to attach to /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket which seems to succeed. At this point I don't see why this fails to give me sound, while a manual 'QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa kvm -hda x.img -cdrom saucy.iso -m 1024 -vnc :1' succeeds. ** Attachment added: "outout" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1246929/+attachment/3930398/+files/outout -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246929 Title: no audio in KVM virtual machines : cannot select alsa or pa To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1246929/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs