Re: [PATCH 1/2] audio: remove qemu_spice_audio_init()

[Volker Rümelin]

>>> +    if (using_spice) {
>>> +        /*
>>> +         * When using spice allow the spice audio driver being picked
>>> +         * as default.
>>> +         *
>>> +         * Temporary hack.  Using audio devices without explicit
>>> +         * audiodev= property is already deprecated.  Same goes for
>>> +         * the -soundhw switch.  Once this support gets finally
>>> +         * removed we can also drop the concept of a default audio
>>> +         * backend and this can go away.
>>> +         */
>>> +        driver = audio_driver_lookup("spice");
>>> +        driver->can_be_default = 1;
>> fyi, one of my libvirt/QEMU guests now segfaults here.
>> See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977301
> Hmm, surely doesn't hurt to add a "if (driver)" check here.
>
> I'm wondering though how you end up with spice being enabled
> but spiceaudio driver not being available.  There is no separate
> config switch so you should have both spice + spiceaudio or
> none of them ...

Hi Gerd,

I can reproduce this problem on my openSUSE 15.2 system. I just have to 
uninstall the qemu-audio-spice rpm package.

One could argue this is a packaging problem.

With best regards
Volker