[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#437801: vmware-package: cannot connect sound on vmware-player, complains about /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site not found

[Robert Edmonds]

Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:30:17PM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > Marc Haber wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > when I click on "Sound Adapter" in the device bar, I get an error
> > > message that /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site cannot be found:
> > > 
> > > Unable to open the /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site license directory: No
> > > such file or directory
> > > Unable to open the /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site license directory: No
> > > such file or directory
> > > Cannot connect virtual device sound. No corresponding device is
> > > available on the host
> > > 
> > > Can vmware-player 2.0 still not use ALSA?
> > 
> > This is probably the case
> 
> Geez, OSS has been deprected for years now.
> 
> >  -- it looks like Petr has a wrapper called vmwaredsp, and someone on
> >  VMTN apparently updated it recently:
> > 
> > http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmwaredsp-1.3.tar.gz
> > http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=694099
> 
> I haven't looked at it in detail, is it a wrapper to be called around
> vmware player? Any chance to have it packaged.
> 
> > I've never used audio with vmware before -- does loading snd_pcm_oss.ko
> > not work?
> 
> No change in vmware-player behavior.

Hm, I was just playing around with sound in a windows VMware guest in
Workstation 6 the other day and it worked fine.  I have the following
snd modules loaded:

edmonds at chase{0}:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_pcm_oss            48288  0 
snd_mixer_oss          21376  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1           142048  1 
snd_rawmidi            30624  1 snd_emu10k1
firmware_class         15360  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec        117464  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                7168  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                89992  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device         12820  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              28424  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         14608  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            9600  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              14728  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    65896  11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              13088  1 snd

(particularly, snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss seem to be what provide
the /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer OSS interface.)

I'll give it a try in Player 2.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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