Audio qube

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I thought I’d add here a post I made, about an issue I have with my microphone after updating to 4.3, since I haven’t gotten any responses there.

Please let me know if you are aware of any changes in 4.3, that breaks functionality in this guide.

Upgrade to QubesOS 4.3 broke enabling mic for a VM

I did an in-place update of QubesOS from 4.2 to 4.3 (no issues there) and since, a little py script in sys-audio (Fedora 42) that I have to enable/disable microphone access to specific qubes, stopped working. The script is based off of the Qubes Audio virtualization guide, In Qubes R4.1 and later, `pacat-simple-vchan` is controlled over a UNIX socket at `/var/run/qubes/audio-control.VMNAME` (where `VMNAME` is the VM’s name). Supported commands: * `audio-input 1\n` - enable audio input * `audi…