[Libvir] [PATCH] sound support for qemu and xen

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Apr 21 18:25:37 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:20:29PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:02:35PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> The patch below adds xml support for the soundhw option to qemu
> >> and xen. The new xml element takes the form:
> >>
> >> <sound driver='drivername'/>
> >>
> >> Where driver name can be pcspk, sb16, es1370, or all.
> > 
> > I'd like to use 'model' instead of 'driver', since we use 
> > 'model' in the network driver to specify the type of hardware
> > and will do the same with disks too in the future.
> > 
> > ie
> >  
> >    <sound  model='sb16'/>
> > 
> 
> Makes sense. I'll make the change.
> 
> >> Everything seems to be in working order but I have a few
> >> implementation questions:
> >>
> >> 1) Should multiple drivers be able to be specified? qemu
> >> accommodates this, allowing  '-soundhw sb16,pcspk' for example.
> >> If this should be allowed, what should the xml format be? 
> > 
> > It should be represented as multiple  <source> tags in the XML.
> > The fact that is multiplexes onto a single -soundhw arg is an
> > implementation detail that should remain hidden.
> > 
> 
> Did you mean <sound> tags? Something like:
> 
> <sound model='d1'/>
> <sound model='d2'/>

yes, that's what i meant.

Dan.
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