On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Lex F wrote: > Dear all > > I am having problems with getting sound running well in Arch Linux > guest (VirtualBox 3.2.8), the host is OS X Snow Leopard. The problem > is that the sound is very choppy. I've checked around VirtualBox and > Arch forums and it seems that some others experience these problems as > well yet I could not see anyone sufficiently skilled to debug this > paying attention. I think there is a problem with either VirtualBox > implementation of the sound card or a bug in ALSA driver for that card > because I have sound running just fine in VMWare Fusion (using es1371 > (?) driver), so the host system definitely is fast enough for decent > sound quality. > > I would like to offer my help with identifying the cause of the > problem and testing solutions if the need be. > > I've attached my alsa-info output for your reference. Please let me > know if there is anything else I could try to help. > > I am very keen to help but I don't know how. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/XRUN_Debug is a good start to see if the virtual machine does receive interrupts in the right time. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel