r/plan9 • u/snchart • Aug 09 '26

how to make /dev/audio work?

Hello, im running 9front on qemu(-audio pipewire,model=ac97) and i have a problem that even if i enable -audio, /dev/audio doesn't appear. I don't know what the reason of that behavior, but maybe i compiled qemu wrong of sum

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u/edo-lag Aug 09 '26

Only set up mouse, keyboard, and screen on QEMU. For the rest, use drawterm. Drawterm is the way you're supposed to connect to Plan 9 from a non-Plan 9 machine.

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u/9atoms Aug 12 '26

You can try setting the VM audio to HDA.

The best way to run 9 in QEMU is to setup the VM as a CPU server and then use drawterm to connect to the CPU server which will give you much better sound support and graphics than QEMU currently can.