on Mon May 21 2007, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote: >> When I have windows XP running under kvm, I get >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/receive.wav >> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave >> aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy >> >> As soon as I shut down my VM, though, it works perfectly. Is this >> expected behavior? >> > > I think you have to set up a mixer or something. But I'd rather be deaf > than have to wade through all the pseudo-documentation in order to find > out how. Maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear. Sound in the VM works fine; it just seems to kill sound in the host... or is the mixer somehow supposed to cure that? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com