Re: KVM virtual machines and jack

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On 12/06/2009 03:20 PM, Reuben Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Paul Davis<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Reuben Martin<reuben.m@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Does anybody know if it is possible to run a guest OS under KVM and
>>> have the ins and outs of the virtual audio device presented to that
>>> OS, interface with JACK on the host linux system?
>>>
>>> I've done a little googling on this but couldn't find anything.
>>> (mostly because "jack" is ambiguous, and "KVM" can mean a lot of
>>> things)
>>>        
>> unless the VM software that provides fake audio devices to the guest
>> OS knows about JACK internally or can be configured to use it, this is
>> not happening.
>> on the other hand, if the VM software can simply use the ALSA JACK
>> plugin, that could potentially work (lots and lots of latency though).
>>
>>      
> In that case I guess my best bet would probably be to petition KVM
> development to add support for JACK. Currently I believe it supports
> ALSA, OSS, SDL and PulseAudio.
>
>    


If KVM already supports those api's then it can  be used with jack via 
several different methods. What is the problem that you are having exactly?





Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd



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