On 6/26/23 14:13, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Historically, the way to set PC speaker for a guest was to pass: > > -soundhw pcspk > > but as of QEMU commit v5.1.0-rc0~28^2~3 this is deprecated and we > should use: > > -machine pcspk-audiodev=$id > > instead. The old way was then removed in commit v7.1.0-rc0~99^2~3. > > Now, ideally we would have a capability selecting whether we talk > to a QEMU that understands the new way or not. But it's not that > simple - the machine attribute is just an alias to the .audiodev= > attribute of 'isa-pcspk' object and both are created in > pc_machine_initfn() function, i.e. not then the PC_MACHINE() class > is initialized, but when it's instantiated. IOW, it's not possible > for us to query whether we're dealing with older or newer QEMU. > > But given that the newer version is supported since v5.1.0 and the > minimal version we require is v4.2.0 (i.e. there are two releases > which don't understand the newer cmd line) and how frequently this > feature is (un-)used (the issue was reported after ~1 year since it > stopped working), I believe we can live without any capability and > just use the newer cmd line unconditionally. > > Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/490 > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> > --- > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 57 ++++++++++++------- > .../sound-device.x86_64-4.2.0.args | 3 +- > .../sound-device.x86_64-latest.args | 3 +- > 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
Polite ping. Michal
