On 07/13/2010 02:50 PM, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:46 -0700, Ryan Beasley wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure something else is involved here. Are you, in the same
>> session,
>> switching between working and busted audio via switching between official
>> Tools
>> and the Open VM Tools in the same session, sans reboots?
>
> No -- only one set of tools is installed at a time.
Right. But my question is whether you're able to flip the switch between
working and broken audio by -only- switching the instance of VMware Tools
installed in the guest.
If you attempt to reconnect the audio device again through the Player UI, do
you
consistently see the error message you reported in your first message? ("The
default sound device cannot be opened. ...")
>> For example:
>> 1. Boot the FreeBSD VM without any VMware Tools packages installed.
>> 2. Fire up mplayer and start playing audio. Perform all the following while
>> audio is still playing.
>
> Audio works fine with the standard-issue tools on 3.0.1, but Flash
> videos *always* freeze. I don't have mplayer installed yet, but I
> certainly can do so. I certainly can try it before installing the
> tools.
It doesn't have to be mplayer, but anything that will open the sound card and
play audio. If you can copy a freely available MP3, WAV, etc. to the VM, I'd
suggest/request running the following in one terminal while performing the
remaining steps:
while true; do
mplayer somefile.mp3 || break
done
It's important that something is playing almost continuously while you're
switching out Tools installs. If something is breaking, I'm interested in
learning exactly where/when it happens. (You could either SSH into the FreeBSD
VM and play from there, or just not exit/re-enter X when switching Tools.
Killing/restarting vmware-user manually would be fine.)
> The vmware tools do not work with 3.1.0 and FreeBSD, which is a known
> problem.
Now this is news to me. I have a FreeBSD 8.0 VM using the same Tools bits from
our Workstation 7.1.0/Player 3.1.0 GA release.
localhost# uname -srm
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64
localhost# vmware-toolbox-cmd --version
8.4.2.12623 (build-261024)
When you have some spare cycles, I'd appreciate it if you fill me in here. :)
> Right. Until Gnome stabilizes (it is the first release in the 2.30
> sequence) I start it from a FreeBSD console window and use "startx" with
> the appropriate .xinitrc file.
Oh, I should rephrase. I'm referring to local console on the Windows host
running Player, not on the FreeBSD VM.
> Forgive me if I am a bit tardy on doing some of the work, as I am
> embroiled in an NIH annual report that is way overdue and has to get in.
No rush. I'd just like to get to the bottom of this.
Thanks.
--
Ryan Beasley :: MTS, Guest Components - Applications :: VMware, Inc.
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