Sound under VMWare [was: Mouse fix]

[Lawrence E. Graves]

No I am not running F11 in my vmware.  I never had these problems before
F11.


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:47 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 11:55 -0600, Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
> > Also, when I am running vmware
> > and logout, I have to force it to quit and there is no transference of
> > sound.  In other words, there is no sound on vmware. 
> 
> If you are using the snd_ens1371 sound card driver ("/sbin/lsmod | grep
> snd" should give you some idea), you may be experiencing this bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496714
> ens1371: snd_pcm_avail() overflow breaks sound under kvm/vmware/etc.
> 
> If you have different hardware, you can file a new bug against
> PulseAudio on bugzilla.redhat.com providing similar diagnostic
> information (like the output of "pulseaudio -vvvv").  If the problem is
> with VMWare itself, Fedora will not be able to help, but if it is that
> should route your report to the right person.
> 
> I assume you are running Fedora 11 Rawhide inside VMWare; it would also
> be helpful to note the host operating system, etc.
> 
> The need to force-quit VMWare is a separate issue; again I don't know if
> that's a problem with Fedora or VMWare.  If it's the latter, you'd need
> to report the problem to them...somehow.  I don't see an obvious place
> on their web site to do that, though if you have purchased the product
> you may have the right to contact technical support.
> 
> -B.
> 
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Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>