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[Feature]: Sound possible? #340

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@digidietze

Is your proposal related to a problem?

I have experimented a bit with trying to activate sound and providing a sound device to the MacOS.
The QEMU binary appears to include only alsa and oss sound implementations, both of which weren't able to activate properly during start-up (qemu runs anyway).

Example:
exec qemu-system-x86_64 ${ARGS:+ $ARGS} -audiodev alsa,id=snd0 -device intel-hda -device hda-output,audiodev=snd0

Describe the solution you'd like.

QEMU can include a PulseAudio implementation which likely would cooperate better with a modern Linux distro.
Is there a way to include that with qemux/qemu? And would that even make sense, would MacOS be able to work with a sound card emulation?

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Tried activating both alsa and oss emulation in qemu.

Additional context

In other news, I'd like to report that experimentally enabling 4 cores on my AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (with 8 cores) works like a treat and speeds things up considerably, combined with 8GB RAM. It's an actually workable machine now.

Also, I had no problems logging into my Apple account later, after the Sonoma installation was complete.
Thanks for making all this possible !!!

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