From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 8:40:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns1.diabolis.net (sandbox2.ncipherusa.com [4.21.180.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862C637BDB8 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bunicula@diabolis.net) Received: from localhost (bunicula@localhost) by dns1.diabolis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA37934; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:47:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bunicula@diabolis.net) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:47:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Bunicula the Vampire Rabbit To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware + sound support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nope. the way VMware handes sounds is that it presents the guest os with a soundblaster 16, and then sends the audio information to the host OS sound card. i.e. you need to have sound in the host for it to be available to the guest. brian On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > A wild (silly?) idea: since the sound support of Dell Inspiron 5000 is not > available, can I run vmware plus some mp3 player from DOS/windows to play > music while working under FreeBSD? > > -Zhihui > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- bunicula at diabolis dot net http://boston.netgoth.net - boston goth resources http://diabolis.net - tech / maybe personal http://shaghaus.org - photo album http://asmodeus.diabolis.net/livecam.php - me. right now To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message