[linux-audio-user] VMWare for Music

[ross at jose.lug.udel.edu]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:27:09AM +0000, ix at replic.net wrote:
> vmware pretty much sucks for audio even at v5.0, but only because they dont care - its virtually impossible to get it to play anything without dropouts, due to the extraordinarily short buffer it uses. i messed with /proc/asound OSS-emu buffersize stuff a bit before giving up..seems hardcoded in vmware..

That's a bummer.  I had hoped I might be able to avoid having to
setup another dual boot setup or buy another machine.  VMWare seemed
like a promising route and the installation of Cakewalk went really
smoothly.  It's just utterly silent ::-).

Bochs seems to have more promising hardware support, but since it
works like a simulator, it's performance is veeeerry slllooow.

Didn't work under Wine either - Cakewalk crashes if I have any of the
Windows core fonts installed.  Oddly enough, if only the music
notation font is installed it works... but I can't read anything!

Prospects look dim at this point...

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at lug.udel.edu

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37