Re: [LAU] KVM virtual machines and jack

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 06 2009 - 04:39:15 EET

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Reuben Martin <reuben.m@email-addr-hidden> 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).
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