Re: [Qemu-devel] Soundwrapper and artsd (fails to share)

[malc]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Richard Neill wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I wonder why the following doesn't seem to work? Qemu still takes an 
> exclusive lock on the soundcard, even when invoked with soundwrapper.
> I'm using this invocation:

There is no such thing as excluse soundcard lock, /dev/dsp is being opened
and if sound hardware does not support multiple hardware channels then 
this is where the story ends.

> soundwrapper /usr/local/bin/qemu -cdrom servicepacks.iso -hda 
> winxp_pro_hd.img -boot c -localtime -enable-audio -m 256 -monitor stdio

I'm not quite sure what soundwrapper is, but if it is just a script that
calls artsdsp under the hood, then it's a no go:

<quote>
# artsdsp i386-softmmu/qemu
artsdsp works only for binaries
</quote>

> No other audio can be played on the host while qemu is running. Does anyone 
> have any ideas? Thanks for your help,

Perhaps some dmix(ALSA's) magic can work, but you'll have to RTFM about it
yourself.

Sincerely,
malc

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