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From: George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to disable pulseaudio on a headless server?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:28:56 -0500
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On 02/12/2018 at 19:40 Leo Famulari writes:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:16:41PM -0500, George myglc2 Clemmer wrote:
>> Is there a way to disable pulseaudio on a headless server?
>
> Typically Pulseaudio is started on-demand by applications that use it.
> On my headless server, Pulseaudio is not running after boot, but when I
> launch the music playback server (MPD), it runs as my user.
>
> So, what is starting Pulseaudio in this case?

Hi Leo,

I had a spurious '-soundhw hda' in the qemu call.

Thanks for asking the obvious question ;-) - George