Message-ID: <3A221A33.EA0C1074@hursley.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:24:19 +0000
From: Derek Fountain
Subject: Vmware & Win2K
A bit off topic I know... :-)
I installed a Win2K Vmware machine onto my SuSE-6.4 setup
late last week. The Samba stuff I was worried about worked
fine just as several people on this list said it would, but
sound is a problem. In particular streaming sound. I was
running Vmware-2.0.1 and found the virtual machine would
hang when it required sound. I upgraded to 2.0.3 and that
fixed that problem, but now the sound is choppy - jiggles
and things like that sound crackly and streaming media is
too poor to listen too.
I tried this on a 128MB laptop with a Maestro sound card and
a 64MB VM, and a 256MB dual PIII 500 with a sound blaster 16
and a 96MB VM. Both sound the same - terrible! I tried
Windows Media Player 6.4 and 7.0, and both sound the same.
I need Windows for multimedia stuff so I went back to NT-4.0
which drives sound perfect on both machines. Has anyone else
seen (heard) this or can recommend a fix?
(Incidentally, Win2K swaps constantly on a 64MB machine!
That alone was reason to dump it from the laptop!)
