You can make VMware use ALSA instead of OSS by doing teh followng
things:
(all as root, of course)
1. apt-get install alsa-oss
2. chmod u+s /usr/lib/libaoss.so*
3. Stop all the vmware daemons, for vmware server this can be done with
'/etc.init.d/vmware stop'.
It might be different with vmware player or workstation, so make double
sure they are *all* stopped.
3. cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin
IMPORTANT!!! the files might be in a different directory on your syste,
depending on whether
you are using vmware server, player or workstation. whatever the directory
is, it should have
the binary executable file vmware-vmx in it.
4. create file vmware-vmx.sh and add the following lines to the file:
#!/bin/sh
#
LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.orig "$@"
IMPORTANT!!! remember to replace the /usr/lib/vmware/bin with the
actual path that vmware-vmx is on your system
5. chmod u+rs,g+rx,o+rx,ugo-w vmware-vmx.sh
6. mv vmware-vmx vmware-vmx.orig
7. mv vmware-vmx.sh vmware-vmx
8. In your individual VM serttings, change the sound card to use one of
'Autodetect' or '/dev/dsp'
9. Restart all the vmware daemons, e.g. '/etc/init.d/vmware start'.
While this works and you can now use your normal ALSA volume control
like the one on the GNOME panel in the default Ubuntu set-up, I would
not recommend it unless you absolutely must have sound access for
multiple VMs.
For me, the sound with the ALSA-wrapped OSS is stuttered and choppy for
a single WinXP VM given a gig of RAM running under 8.04 on a 3.6GHz Xeon
Irwindale with 4 gigs of RAM. The default OSS sound, however, with none
of the above changes, is perfectly solid.
I think we just need to get on VMware's tail and get them to upgrade how
VMware does sound.
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VMware Player should use ALSA and not /dev/dsp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81742
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