Windows driver for virtio-snd. Here we need a really good justification to do it. Basically, MS has universal audio architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Audio_Architecture - which means all audio devices should be "standard" and use MS class driver. So without understanding the usage case, we don't see special reason to do something that cannot be certified.

@YanVugenfirer Isn't the virtio-snd specification based, at least in part, on the Intel High Definition Audio specification, which in turn is part of Microsoft's Universal Audio Architecture? As I understand from this documentation, that was done deliberately, to make it possible to add support for virtio-snd to a unified HDA driver.

Nice to see support for virtio-snd picking up, both in hypervisors and as a Windows guest driver in addition to the already mainlined Linux driver.

I'm curious about the possible improvements in terms of CPU utilization and latency that a paravirtualized sound driver could offer over an emulated HDA device, or an emulated USB audio device for that matter.

Thanks for your efforts, everyone.

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