Sunday, February 17, 2008

VMWare Server Sound on CentOS

Kind of disappointing that VMWare Server can only use the sound on one VM concurrently and that's only of nothing else is touching the sound card. Turns out after googling around a bit that VMWare uses OSS for it's sound. I installed the alsa-oss package for FC7 and the alsa-oss-libs package for FC7 as well (got them from rpmfind.net). I then renamed my vmware script to vmware.orig. I wrote a new script called vmware to run the aoss wrapper and have aoss invoke vmware.orig and pass all of the args it received. Works like a champ. Now at least all of the VMs can have sound. They can't use the sound at exactly the same time, but at least it's better than it was before. Afterall, what's a home automation system without sound :-)