Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] apply volume on client side (v3)

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 13.03.2012 11:19, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> I do to, except when they fix broken behaviour. More seriously, do you
>>> have other concerns with the mixemu code?
>>
>> Sure - it adds overhead.
> 
> The point of this patchset is to kill the overhead if possible, i.e. try
> to pass down the volume the guest asked for all the way down to the
> hosts's audio hardware.
> 
> This patchset starts with spice and pulse, adding support to other audio
> backends (oss, alsa, windows, ...) shouldn't be hard, mixemu shouldn't
> be used in the common case then.

Then the default should probably to use it at least if the backend
support passing it through? Leaving it broken by default wouldn't be
very nice.

Kevin