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

[David Abrahams]

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 
>>
>>   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.

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?

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Dave Abrahams
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