[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] qemu/kvm seems to take ALSA all for itself?

[Avi Kivity]

David Abrahams wrote:
> When I have windows XP running under kvm, I get 
>
>   address@hidden:/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.

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