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Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Advanced configuration options for VM


We will now look at some of the advanced configuration options we can use to extend the capability of KVM virtual machines.

Configuring a sound device

In this section we are going to see how to add sound support to a VM. Proxmox by default does not add audio hardware to a VM. In order for the VM operating system to start a sound service, some arguments must be added to the VM configuration file through CLI. As of Proxmox VE 4.1 it is not possible to add a sound interface through the GUI. The following steps will add a sound device to a VM:

  1. Log in to the Proxmox node through SSH or directly in the console.

  2. Navigate to the VM configuration directory /etc/pve/nodes/<node_name>/qemu-server/<vm_id>.conf.

  3. Open the VM configuration file with your favorite text editor and add on of the the following arguments:

    For Windows 10 and later VMs:

    args: -device intel-had,id=sound5,bus=pci.0,addr=0x18 –device hda-micro,id=sound5-codec0,bus=sound5.0,cad=0 –device...
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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