Bug 786412 - RFE: Saving VM audio output to a file
Summary: RFE: Saving VM audio output to a file
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-01 11:27 UTC by Justin Clift
Modified: 2016-03-23 20:45 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-03-23 20:45:51 UTC

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Description Justin Clift 2012-02-01 11:27:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

  KVM can be instructed to save the audio output of a virtual machine, to a file:

    /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -audio-help

  However, libvirt does not yet support this.

  It would be useful to add support for this to libvirt, so people can save audio output for layer playback or analysis.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  Checked libvirt 0.9.9, and it doesn't appear to support this yet.
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2012-02-01 11:33:26 UTC 
IMHO libvirt is the wrong place to be doing this kind of thing. It should be done using SPICE or GTK, both of which have APIs (gtk-vnc & spice-gtk) which allow capturing of audio from the VM.
Comment 2 Justin Clift 2012-02-01 11:40:46 UTC 
Yeah, adding it to client side apps would also provide much of the same result. :)
Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2016-03-23 20:45:51 UTC 
As Dan said, libvirt isn't the right place for this
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.