On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 13:43, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 12:43, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 at 17:10, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi Shreyansh, Gerd, and Laurent, > >> >> The last virtio-sound RFC was sent in February last year. It was a > >> >> spare time project. Understandably it's hard to complete the whole > >> >> thing on weekends, evenings, etc. So I wanted to suggest relaunching > >> >> the virtio-sound effort as a Google Summer of Code project. > >> >> > >> >> Google Summer of Code is a 12-week full-time remote work internship. > >> >> The intern would be co-mentored by some (or all) of us. The project > >> >> goal would be to merge virtio-sound with support for both playback and > >> >> capture. Advanced features for multi-channel audio, etc can be stretch > >> >> goals. > >> >> > >> >> I haven't looked in detail at the patches from February 2022, so I > >> >> don't know the exact state and whether there is enough work remaining > >> >> for a 12-week internship. What do you think? > >> > > >> > Adding Anton. > >> > > >> > I have updated the old wiki page for this project idea and added it to > >> > the 2023 ideas list: > >> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/VirtioSound > >> > > >> > Please let me know if you wish to co-mentor this project! > >> > >> I'd be happy to help - although if someone was rust inclined I'd also be > >> happy to mentor a rust-vmm vhost-user implementation of VirtIO sound. > > > > Maybe Gerd can tell us about the QEMU audio subsystem features that > > may be lost if developing a standalone vhost-user device. > > > > Two things come to mind: > > 1. May not run on all host OSes that QEMU supports if it supports > > fewer native audio APIs than QEMU. > > 2. May not support forwarding audio to remote desktop solutions that > > stream audio over the network. I don't know if/how this works with > > VNC/RDP/Spice, but a separate vhost-user process will need to do extra > > work to send the audio over the remote desktop connection. > > Hmm good point. Maybe a stretch goal?
Let's see what Gerd and Marc-André think. It would be nice to implement the device in Rust... Stefan
