David Abrahams wrote: > 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? > >
I have a similar problem where running a Java virtual machine kills sound to other apps. I assume that a mixer will fix this, but have been unable to get it to work. Looks like this is a similar problem. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
