Re: Sound error: Could not initialize DirectSoundCapture

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 14:58, Jakob Bohm <jb@wisemo.com> wrote:
> I sometimes use Windows, and the only time I tried a qemu on Windows,
> I could not find any working sound option, and all the help and error
> messages were useless, suggesting things that weren't explained, listing
> options that didn't work etc.
>
> Someone on the team needs to clean up sound support in the prebuilt
> Windows binaries that are linked to from qemu.org.

Perhaps so. Unfortunately very few people on the QEMU
dev team use Windows at all; Linux is by far the best supported
host OS. If anybody is interested in trying to improve the
sound situation on Windows hosts we'd be happy to review patches.

thanks
-- PMM