Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/24] Audio: Mixeng-free 5.1/7.1 audio support

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> * oss - works, but it looks like I have to specify both in.dev and out.dev
> if the default /dev/dsp does not exist, otherwise I just get a generic
> "Could not init `oss' audio driver".  We need a better error message here
> IMHO.

Yes, we basically have to add a Error* arg to the init callback so the
drivers can return error messages.  I've started looking into this a
while back, will try to resume the effort once we have this series
finally merged.

> * sdl - works
> * spice - yes, it's broken now, I'll fix it in the next update.  I've also
> found a second bug (SIGSEGV if the guest starts playing while no client is
> connected).
> 
> > What about windows+macos?
> 
> No idea, I don't have a windows or mac computer.  I could try it in a
> windows VM though, if I figure out how to compile qemu on windows.

debian and fedora have cross compilers for windows (mingw project)
which is supported by qemu and is probably easier than getting things
built on windows.

macos does at least build, but I have macos only in a vm without
sound support so I can't test whenever it actually works ...

Peter, any chance you can give this a try?

cheers,
  Gerd