The ALSA libs have builtin support for dmix and dsnoop since version
1.0.10. Therefore multiple audio streams will work out-of-the box at
least with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper), Debian 4.0 (Etch), and at least
OpenSUSE 10.2.

Kind regards,

Frank

On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Michael Taylor wrote:
> I do not how the internals work, just that I fired up two 1.3.4 guests with
> ALSA sound and verified the sound was working there, went back to the host,
> fired up a few games and still had sound in the games, when I didn't before
> on OSS sound in 1.3.2 guests...
>
> David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are lucky enough to have
> ALSA sound working in guest on 1.3.4
>
> > without host reboots, you can access sound in the guest and the host
> > concurrently.  If you start a second guest, with ALSA sound, there is a
> > complaint about no access to the sound device, but sound works normally
> > in the second guest.
>
> Most ALSA drivers are not multiclient so how this can work, I do not know.
> An .asoundrc can be set up to mix several clients into the main hw:0 or
> whatever. Jack could readily connect multiple sources to one device as well
> but lets have ALSA working without crashing the host before graduating.
> Anyway, to get a VM to have sufficient performance to take advantage of
> jack's capabilities and do useful sound production is a nice dream,
> especially on my of PIII clunker.
>
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