You can use -audiodev pa,id=whatever,server=unix:/home/ivan/.pulse_server to get things going with your configuration.
Oh, and this has nothing to do with systemd: kraxel@gentoo ~ $ set | grep ^XDG XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/run/user/1000 XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=gentoo-1556780854.41316-799155214 (gentoo with openrc + xfce, serial console login, x11 login has a few more of these set). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825452 Title: Pulse audio backend doesn't work in v4.0.0-rc4 release Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Using Gentoo linux, build from source: qemu v4.0.0-rc4 release (eeba63fc7fface36f438bcbc0d3b02e7dcb59983) Pulse audio backend doesn't initialize because of the: audio/paaudio.c: - if (!popts->has_server) { - char pidfile[64]; - char *runtime; - struct stat st; - - runtime = getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"); - if (!runtime) { - return NULL; - } - snprintf(pidfile, sizeof(pidfile), "%s/pulse/pid", runtime); - if (stat(pidfile, &st) != 0) { - return NULL; - } - } XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set for me. There is no /run/user directory exist in my system. Also: $ less ~/.pulse/client.conf default-server = unix:/home/ivan/.pulse_server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1825452/+subscriptions
