[pve-devel] Audio support, dummy/none

[Aaron Lauterer]

On 1/4/21 6:55 PM, Gilles Pietri wrote:
> Le 03/01/2021 à 01:55, Gilles Pietri a écrit :
>> Hi!
>>
>> Happy new year to everyone, especially the devs working on Proxmox, it's
>> still awesome in 2021 ;)
>>
>> I'm interested in replicating a qemu audio setup that uses the dummy
>> driver (called "none") on Proxmox, but the enum $audio_fmt
>> (PVE/QemuServer.pm) for drivers only contains spice as a choice, which
>> is all nice, but a bit restrictive!
>>
>> Since this is used only (?) to generate the audio conf (through
>> conf_has_audio), which generate the audio devices through audio_devs,
>> which in turn generates both the -device param and the -audiodev
>> backend,id=xxx, it seems there wouldn't be any side effect if we fed
>> "none" instead of spice, as the id param is valid and works the same here.
>>
>> I haven't tried patching that, but it might be that this would boil down to:
>>
>> diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
>> index bca5669..54278e5 100644
>> --- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
>> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ my $audio_fmt = {
>>       },
>>       driver =>  {
>>          type => 'string',
>> -       enum => ['spice'],
>> +       enum => ['spice', 'none'],
>>          default => 'spice',
>>          optional => 1,
>>          description => "Driver backend for the audio device."
>>
> 
> I tried it, it went on generating the kvm command line with none instead
> of spice as:
> -device 'ich9-intel-hda,id=audiodev0,bus=pci.2,addr=0xc' -device
> 'hda-micro,id=audiodev0-codec0,bus=audiodev0.0,cad=0,audiodev=none-backend0'
> -device
> 'hda-duplex,id=audiodev0-codec1,bus=audiodev0.0,cad=1,audiodev=none-backend0'
> -audiodev 'none,id=none-backend0'
> 
> instead of the original:
> -device 'ich9-intel-hda,id=audiodev0,bus=pci.2,addr=0xc' -device
> 'hda-micro,id=audiodev0-codec0,bus=audiodev0.0,cad=0,audiodev=spice-backend0'
> -device
> 'hda-duplex,id=audiodev0-codec1,bus=audiodev0.0,cad=1,audiodev=spice-backend0'
> -audiodev 'spice,id=spice-backend0'
> 
> And this works flawlessly…
> 
> However, I guess I need to deploy the full version to have the webui
> integrating it, but I can follow up on that…

Adding support for the 'none' backend should not be too hard to implement. Besides changes in QemuServer.pm, the GUI (pve-manager) needs to be adapted as well because right now the backend is hard coded.

Adding support for ALSA and / or pulseaudio is probably a bit more complicated to get it working "out of the box" and AFAICT our qemu build currently does not support the PA backend.


If you want to take the challenge to implement the support for the none backend yourself, you are welcome to do so!
Have a look at our Dev documentation [0]. We would also need a signed CLA[1] send to office at proxmox.com

Alternatively you can create an enhancement request in our bugtracker so we can keep track of it.


[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation
[1] file:///tmp/mozilla_alauterer0/Proxmox-Individual-CLA.pdf
[2] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/


> 
> Regards,
> Gilles
> 
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