[Lxc-users] Fwd: LXC and sound in container -

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stéphane Graber (stephane.graber at canonical.com):
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:57:04AM -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting brian mullan (bmullan.mail at gmail.com):
> > > I'm not sure the lxc-user alias will take an file attachment or not.   If
> > > not I'll try something else.
> > > 
> > > I tried to document everything I did to finally get sound working in an LXC
> > > container on my Ubuntu 13.10 system.
> > 
> > Thanks Brian.  If you're interested, I would suggest splitting this into
> > two howtos, and posting them in a wiki or at linuxcontainers.org.  One
> > would be on just setting up x.  That actually could be a main page with
> > a list of options, one being the one you documented, another (soon)
> > spice, etc.  The other would be on pulseaudio.
> > 
> > Stéphane, could you briefly comment on what arkose did to allow
> > simulatenous host and container pulseaudio access?  Brian mentioned
> > something about glueing in a pulseaudio socket?
> 
> arkose basically runs:
> pactl load-module module-native-protocol-unix socket=/some/path auth-cookie-enabled=0
> 
> The bind-mounts that socket inside the container and exports
> PULSE_SERVER=/some/path in the container's environment.

Thanks, Stéphane.  Interesting.

(I need to find time to work on Xspice in a container, but unfortunately
it was segfaulting for me last week.)