[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] spice: add audio

[malc <av1474@comtv.ru>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> On 11/09/10 17:36, malc wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > 
> > > Add support for the spice audio interface.  With this patch applied
> > > audio can be forwarded over the network from/to the spice client.  Both
> > > recording and playback is supported.
> > > 
> > > The driver is first in the driver list, but the can_be_default flag is
> > > set only in case spice is active.  So if you have the spice protocol
> > > enabled the spice audio driver is the default one, otherwise whatever
> > > comes first after spice in the list.  Overriding the default using
> > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV works in any case.
> > > 
> > > [ v2: audio codestyle: add spaces before open parenthesis ]
> > > [ v2: add const to silence array ]
> > 
> > Is this somehow testable?
> 
> /me guesses there are no pre-built spice packages for your linux system, so
> you have to build spice yourself.  In short:
> 
>   * Fetch, build + install celt, version 0.5.1 is needed.
>   * Fetch, build + install spice-protocol
>   * Fetch, build + install spice
> 
> You can download the bits from:
> 
>   http://www.celt-codec.org/
>   http://www.spice-space.org/
> 
> With this in place you should be able to build qemu with spice support
> (configure should detect it).
> 
> The add '-spice port=$number,disable-ticketing' to your qemu command line.
> Start spice client (part of the spice package) this way:
> 
>   spicec -h localhost -p $number
> 
> Note that spice doesn't work (yet) on bigendian machines, so don't try that on
> your ppc box.
> 

Thanks.

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