Joseph wrote:
Unfortunately, under  VirtualBox I am unable to get my video card recognized by 
WoW. I am running b118 at this point. I went with VirtualBox over VMWare 
because of seamless mode. I am finding several limitation for me OpenSolaris as 
my host. :(

mplayer and WoW having by far the largest impact on me. hehe. With those being 
non business apps its hard to say how this would impact wide adoption in a 
commercial market.. but the entertainment/casual retail marketability for 
OpenSolaris is severly hampered... Honestly the real killer is that Totem is 
pretty much inept. CD audio disks don't even play. Not my expectation using 
Toshiba hardware that apparently can be purchased pre-installed.

I've had the same experience with totem. I don't know why it can't play audio cds... kind of lame in my opinion. However, the "CD Ripper" utility from Applications->Sound & Video seems to work reasonably for me for playing CD audio. I think rhythymbox can do it too, although I've not really tried that.

   - Garrett

________________________________________
From: Garrett D'Amore [garr...@damore.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:42 PM
To: Joseph
Cc: James Carlson; opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [osol-code] Cant get Wow working in Wine

VirtualBox on Solaris hosts works well, but for audio you only get
playback, not record.  This is a limitation in the VirtualBox software,
and I believe the team is looking at fixing it.  (On a system with
OpenSolaris b115 or newer they can make use of the same OSS APIs that
they use on Linux, which probably means that the sound support can be
much better than it was going forward.)

Note also that OpenSolaris *guests* after build 115 work *much* better
(for audio at least) than earlier revisions of Solaris.  (This is
because, I believe, that the changes in Boomer mean that we bypass the
problematic sample rate conversion logic in Virtual Box.)

     -- Garrett

Joseph wrote:
I am running an instance of VirtualBox now so i can continue to dev in 
VisualStudio for work. However my freackig mic doesnt work :(
ill try migrating my data to the VirtualBox install.

Thanks for the heads up.
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From: James Carlson [carls...@workingcode.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 11:25 AM
To: Joseph
Cc: opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [osol-code] Cant get Wow working in Wine

Joseph wrote:

I want basic desktop utilization out of this box which under M$ of course works fine. 
Although under OpenSolaris I appears to have full driver support and so forth nothing 
"really" works from mplayer to of course wine..

No idea about mplayer, but very few things seem to run successfully
under Wine -- on OpenSolaris or Linux.  I've long since given up on it,
and I'm now using VirtualBox.  It has the downside that you'll need to
have a real copy of Windows to use it, but the upside that it "just
works," even with complicated applications.


jos...@mirai:~$ wine '/export
/home/Joseph/Desktop/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe' -opengl
err:iphlpapi:getNumWithOneHeader Unable to open '/proc/net/route' to count 
entries!
err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable unimplemented!

Not sure about the rest of it, but that part looks like an incorrect
port of a Linux application to OpenSolaris: there's no such thing as
/proc/net/route on OpenSolaris.  The application needs to be recoded to
use the inet/mib2.h interfaces instead.
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