Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] audio: paaudio: fix client name

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 21:28 +0200, Zoltán Kővágó wrote:
> On 2019-08-26 10:21, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 02:29 +0200, Kővágó, Zoltán wrote:
> > > pa_context_new expects a client name, not a server socket path.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kővágó, Zoltán <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >  audio/paaudio.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/audio/paaudio.c b/audio/paaudio.c
> > > index bfef9acaad..777b8e4718 100644
> > > --- a/audio/paaudio.c
> > > +++ b/audio/paaudio.c
> > > @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ static void *qpa_conn_init(const char *server)
> > >      }
> > >  
> > >      c->context = 
> > > pa_context_new(pa_threaded_mainloop_get_api(c->mainloop),
> > > -                                server);
> > > +                                "qemu");
> > >      if (!c->context) {
> > >          goto fail;
> > >      }
> > 
> > Also tested, and this works.
> > 
> > May I suggest though to make this configurable as well, for the sake of
> > usability since gnome sound settings show only the client name, and it
> > is per each sound card.
> > Although on the other thing the client name is qemu.
> 
> There is a small problem with that.  Currently we only open one
> connection to pa, even with multiple -audiodevs (they will just create
> different streams), which means we can only use a single client name per
> qemu process.  Because of that, I wouldn't turn this into an audiodev
> property.  Some other kind of global setting could work, but I'm not
> sure whether it's worth it or not.
> 
> Regards,
> Zoltan

All right.
We could use the VM name for that though, so that at least multiple VMs
would show up as different client.


Best regards,
        Maxim Levitsky