Hi, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:50 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: [...] > I meant to say is: do you know if VBox tries to gain an exclusive lock > on /dev/dsp (or whatever), and if it doesn't get exclusivity does it do > something different and continue. As I mentioned before, if /dev/dsp is > in use (i.e. mplayer is running) when VBox starts, then VBox continues > to work as expected. However if VBox is started first, no other > application can play sound until the VBox guest is stopped/suspended.
Well, not completely. I have the same problem here (Ubuntu 6.06 host, different guests). When I start VBox with alsa plugin, I can no longer use anything with sound. When flash or something starts in Firefox, the whole browser deadlocks and I need to kill it. Even though, Firefox is configured to use alsa output and it generally works. One note, though. I have an alsa client running all the time (one of those noce Amilo Si 1520 bugs... needs a bit cpu load otherwise it emits a high pitched noise... another story...). The client is more or less aoss mpg123 silence.mp3... This one is not affected by running vbox. But doesn't that mean, that VBox will never have an exclusive lock on the soundcard? Regards, Frank, first post here. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
