No sound in QEMU/KVM virtual machines

I’m using Manjaro Gnome. I have four QEMU/KVM virtual machines installed using Manjaro as host. After the updates dated 2025-04-12, I find none of the virtual machines have any sound. Sound on the Manjaro host is not affected.

How can I fix this?

Enabling Sound in QEMU Virtual Machines - Dr. Mike Murphy

FOSDEM 2024 - Pipewire Audio Backend in QEMU

Sorry - I have no idea how to use any of the information in those links. All four VMs had sound previous to the last updates.

How about downgrading the qemu-audio packages?

which sound source have you set in kvm ? ac97 , ich6 or ich9 ? have you tried to change this setting ?

I am using ich9, but I tried the others. None work.

Resolution:

Since I could not find a solution with Manjaro as host, I decided to simply import my VMs into a Fedora Workstation host (on the same computer). I found the VMs all have sound there, so there they will stay.

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