On Thursday 05 May 2005 16:33, Preston Crawford wrote:
As long as VMWare tools are installed I've had no trouble with sound and VMWare 4.5.2 under SuSE 9.2. The key thing, I've found, is that if you use Gnome and startup using the sound server or you're playing music or something in the host OS, then the guest OS can't share the sound device and thus sound won't work. Turn off the app hogging /dev/dsp (in my case), such as Gaim or XMMS and the guest OS sound works.
That's been my experience.
That depends on which sound card you have. If you have a card capable of handling multiple threads, such SBLive! or newer, it should work anyway. For other cards, if you start the program with esddsp <program name> for gnome, or artsdsp <program name> if you're running KDE, and the sound output will be routed through the sound daemon and you should get nice multiplexed sound from multiple applications