I have a Docker that's running Alpine Linux. There is no hardware audio device at all.
I've managed to get pulseaudio running seemingly fine under the user.
I've been experimenting with trying to get PA to function as a virtual soundcard, with the intent of streaming the audio from the docker using ffmpeg. But so far without luck. And i've yet to come across examples that did not involve a machine that lacked audio hardware.
My main concern is getting VICE (x64 , The Commodore 64 emulator) to correctly utilize 'pulse' instead of 'dummy'. I've compiled VICE with '--with-pulse' , and 'pulse' does indeed show up in the settings menu.
Though, when i switch to 'pulse' instead of 'dummy' , x64 complains it can't initialize it and then disables it's own sound output.
pactl and pacmd seems to have no problem controlling the pulseaudio server though.
I've tried the following (and also module-pipe)
$ pacmd load-module module-null-sink sink_name=VirtSoundCard sink_properties=device.description=Virtual-Sound-Card
$ pacmd set-default-sink VirtSoundCard
Though without any luck so far. So hoping to hear from anyone who might know how it can be done, while i spend the rest of the night trying.
The 'default.pa' i'm using atm : https://bitbucket.org/duckhuntpr0/pyvice/src/pyvice_base/src/fs/home/pyvice/default.pa