[opensuse] No sound in vmware
opensuse 11, vmware server 107, win XP 64bit. Google hasn't been my friend. I've tried setting the audio device to /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, tried launching the thing with the vmware-dsp scripts, no luck. Anyone had success with this? FWIW, I'd rather use kvm, but it refuses to actually install XP into the image file (sits in "Setup is starting Windows" forever), and virtualbox still won't do a 64bit guest. Xen/tightvnc is unacceptable resolution. TIA. Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared. - David Brooks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Michael Fischer
opensuse 11, vmware server 107, win XP 64bit.
Google hasn't been my friend.
I've tried setting the audio device to /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, tried launching the thing with the vmware-dsp scripts, no luck.
Anyone had success with this?
FWIW, I'd rather use kvm, but it refuses to actually install XP into the image file (sits in "Setup is starting Windows" forever), and virtualbox still won't do a 64bit guest. Xen/tightvnc is unacceptable resolution.
TIA.
If the problem is that you are seeing messages to the effect that "/dev/dsp could not be found" then run alsaconf as root. I suffered thru this recently and eventually found that simply running alasconf solved the problem. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
If the problem is that you are seeing messages to the effect that "/dev/dsp could not be found" then run alsaconf as root. I suffered thru this recently and eventually found that simply running alasconf solved the problem.
A couple of other things to check. Make sure amarok isn't running (alsaconf kills amarok and kmix when it does the equivalent of /etc/init.d/sound restart). And I've found that sometimes removing the USB configuration in the VMWare seesion makes the sound work for XP 32 bit. -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Sep 29, Scott Newton wrote:
If the problem is that you are seeing messages to the effect that "/dev/dsp could not be found" then run alsaconf as root. I suffered thru this recently and eventually found that simply running alasconf solved the problem.
A couple of other things to check. Make sure amarok isn't running (alsaconf kills amarok and kmix when it does the equivalent of /etc/init.d/sound restart). And I've found that sometimes removing the USB configuration in the VMWare seesion makes the sound work for XP 32 bit.
No, I don't have any "/dev/dsp could not be found" message. Of course, If I've got xmms or similar running when I launch vmware, I get a message to the effect that it cannot be opened, so I make sure that I shut off such apps first, and check with $ sudo lsof /dev/dsp Sound works just fine on the host SuSE system, so I'm not sure what good running alsaconf would do. I've tried restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound - to no good effect for vmware. Curious point: when vmware starts "happily", claiming that it has connected to /dev/dsp without complaint, Windows itself (control panel) doesn't think there is any audio device. Any further suggestions? Thanks. Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared. - David Brooks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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