| 23 Oct 2025 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | that is the main reason why its set as draft currently | 21:13:12 |
 emily | I've subscribed but no time to read in depth right now | 21:13:33 |
| 24 Oct 2025 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | 
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| Grimmauld (any/all) | so turns out browser just works | 11:01:58 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | i have not yet figured out how to convince our VM setup to give sound output, but supposedly pipewire is running | 11:02:31 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | it might be time to flash this monster on some usb drive and boot it on metal | 11:02:59 |
 K900 | -device hda-micro should do it? | 11:08:20 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | I'll try! | 11:08:36 |
 hacker1024 | If it's a standard NixOS VM you can do something like
virtualisation.vmVariant.virtualisation.qemu.options = [
# https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/virtio-snd.html
"-audio driver=alsa,model=virtio"
];
| 11:10:05 |
| hacker1024 | * If it's a standard NixOS VM you can do something like
virtualisation.vmVariant.virtualisation.qemu.options = [
# https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/virtio-snd.html
"-audio driver=alsa,model=virtio"
];
| 11:10:35 |
 dramforever | oh wow of course that's a thing | 11:11:32 |
| K900 | You definitely don't want driver=alsa | 11:11:38 |
| K900 | Either driver=pulse or driver=pipewire | 11:12:02 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | Whats wrong with alsa? | 11:12:52 |
| hacker1024 | Yep, though alsa does work fine on PipeWire at least through their API compatibility layer. I use it for another project so it works on everyone'e device regardless of their sound server | 11:13:00 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | i mean yes i'd do pipewire, but alsa should work too | 11:13:05 |
| hacker1024 | * | 11:13:15 |
| K900 | Pulse should work as well | 11:14:14 |
| K900 | Qemu's alsa backend is very bad | 11:14:39 |
| K900 | (as are most alsa backends really because it's really not trivial to get alsa right) | 11:14:50 |
 Marie | https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/virtio-snd.html 404s :( | 11:15:43 |
| K900 | Also yes I keep forgetting virtio-snd exists | 11:19:35 |
| hacker1024 | It doesn't help that the docs link 404s now and is still the top hit on Google 😂 | 11:20:19 |
| Marie | who thought it would be a good idea to break all of these links | 11:23:23 |
| Marie | same thing is the case with virtio-gpu | 11:23:29 |
| K900 | https://www.qemu.org/docs/ | 11:26:16 |
| K900 | Pretty sure they just broke their gitlab pages setup | 11:26:23 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | hmm, i only see a "Dummy output", but i don't seem to get any output out of the VM | 11:38:32 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | the painful bit is, i can't tell whether thats an issue with the virtualisation or the system i defined | 11:39:09 |
| K900 | "Dummy output" is not a real device | 11:39:35 |
