[opensuse] Sound When VirtualBox Running
When I have VBox (2.0.6 from Sun) running, I get no sound on my KDE desktop. For example, if I'm running Vista (for work) and then launch Youtube - http://www.donutmonster.com/stuff/2009/20090117_sound_vbox.jpg - then I get no sound on YouTube or anything else in my system. Vista produces sounds just fine. What might be going on? -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.filesite.org a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-01-17 at 21:03 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
When I have VBox (2.0.6 from Sun) running, I get no sound on my KDE desktop. ... What might be going on?
I guess it grabs the only dsp device, thus no sound for anybody else. I get the same behavior with vmware; and correspondingly, if sound is busy when I start the guest, vmware warns that sound will be disabled this time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklzvIMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UqcQCfd6actkb2nLaQQCvGBzgeJgsf nNkAn2MwFYCq/IKkY5jnQcp0iFukK4CC =zIJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
kai,
When I have VBox (2.0.6 from Sun) running, I get no sound on my KDE desktop.
For example, if I'm running Vista (for work) and then launch Youtube -
http://www.donutmonster.com/stuff/2009/20090117_sound_vbox.jpg
- then I get no sound on YouTube or anything else in my system. Vista produces sounds just fine.
What might be going on?
I don't know if my experience tramslates directly, as i am running Windows XP under VirtualBox 2.1 from Sun. Not Vista and not Virtual Box 2.06, but I had exactly the same symptoms. Sound fine under the Windows guest but no sound in Opensuse 11.1 The fix for me was to change a setting in Virtual Box. Settings -> Audio -> Host Audi Driver I changed it from pulseaudio to ALSA. Now I have sound on both host and guest. At random times I lose sound, but this is fixed by running rcalsasound restart as root. Mike
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Mike Coan wrote:
kai,
When I have VBox (2.0.6 from Sun) running, I get no sound on my KDE desktop.
For example, if I'm running Vista (for work) and then launch Youtube -
http://www.donutmonster.com/stuff/2009/20090117_sound_vbox.jpg
- then I get no sound on YouTube or anything else in my system. Vista produces sounds just fine.
What might be going on?
I don't know if my experience tramslates directly, as i am running Windows XP under VirtualBox 2.1 from Sun. Not Vista and not Virtual Box 2.06, but I had exactly the same symptoms. Sound fine under the Windows guest but no sound in Opensuse 11.1
The fix for me was to change a setting in Virtual Box. Settings -> Audio -> Host Audi Driver I changed it from pulseaudio to ALSA. Now I have sound on both host and guest.
At random times I lose sound, but this is fixed by running
rcalsasound restart
as root.
Okay, either switching to 2.1 or changing the sound driver from nullaudio to ALSA helped. I have sound in both host and guest. Thanks, all!! -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.filesite.org a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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