Spice audio isn't working

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I’m wondering what’s going wrong with audio over spice. Running Archlinux and at some point recently sound seems to have stopped working with spice clients and windows 10. The device appears just fine in Windows, but if it tries to play a sound it hangs and lags and nothing is heard. Now this used to work, so I started checking configuration files and the like but I’m not seeing anything obviously wrong. No errors either in the logs I know to check.

Thoughts?

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I forgot to update this as I did eventually figure this out. It was something to do with the QEMU Q35 machine version with the latest (4.0) version of QEMU.

Set the following in my libvirt machine config:
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type>

And that solved the problem.

Here is the source that helped me figure it out: https://turlucode.com/qemu-4-0-0-released-windows-10-client-issues/