-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:11:18AM +0100, Robert Mittendorf wrote: > Hey fellow Qubes-Users, > > I want to use an remote PULSE audio server to playback sound output. The > server side is up & running. The connecting AppVM is based on the > debian-8 template > > Standard auto-discover does not work, probably because the AppVM tries > to locate the remote server in the virtual internal networks of my Qubes OS. > I tried to use a tunnel in /etc/pulse/default.pa: > load-module module-tunnel-sink-new server=%SERVER_IP% sink_name=Remote > channels=2 rate=44100 > > I noticed that Qubes itself uses PULSE audio. > When I boot a VM, there is a Qubes VSINK device, but no tunnel. > If I restart PULSE audio > pulseaudio -k > pulseaudio --start > that device is gone, but the tunnel is shown. > > Even though the tunnel is shown, I cannot playback sound using it.
This is probably some network related problem. Check pulseaudio logs (probably just `journalctl`). > I would like to have both devices (Qubes VSINK and the remote PULSE > server) to choose from in pavucontrol > > Questions > 1) What does Qubes do in order to show/connect to the VSINK? Is there a > different config file which is loaded when an AppVM boots? Yes, the default pulseaudio instance is started with /etc/pulse/qubes-default.pa as config. It's done with this script: start-pulseaudio-with-vchan > 2) Is a tunnel the right/best option to connect to the remote PULSE > audio server? I haven't used that module, but I think you can try to load it dynamically using pactl, instead of restarting pulseaudio with modified config. > 3) Is it a bug that a restart of pulseaudio does remove/not reconnect to > Qubes VSINK? Depends on what you want to accomplish ;) - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYeAhDAAoJENuP0xzK19csLI0H/A+0EZJml4OeTOEf9isHMvMe Co26GY6PaNcrSOQeGK62DB/A82XvlJFetAAQGyEQKfABZC0nFazmzD1U+gxcH9BW idKtt/TXvcqcYlhGjoh2bj/BZv8WYiYVXyt02ikRy8qjKOSOozy8A1lSirBEbSsi GlRDPV6kgAt8OzjojOesloqmZ3N4aiDrif6TpsNhJ3l1UIfI+LA+r5HODWza9SYD hjEjNlqwpnTNQT/niolJR9z2pnu21vw8OmZcXfFqMJtTivXxLNbGqBqgronQS2oW aqgtbnMZA1NpqmUr2XwNemk4LHi+YVR6Exhg29nO/uKoBR7F1/qArubrc48W0gk= =bIzY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170112225043.GB17864%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
