Linux sound is excellent - sound mixing works almost flawlessly expect for some troublesome applications.
I was able to watch youtube as well as see media on vlc with the sound mixing automatically. No unnecessary exclusive access to sound.
VmWare Workstation on the other hand is a spoilsport before the sweet hack.
On that page, all that I actually needed to do was to create the shell script that would call the real vmware-vmx using padsp.
After that, I needed to make the virtual machine guests sound card use /dev/dsp and only after that was I able to hear sounds from the guest.
Another crib about Workstation - every once in a while, Workstation screws up bad and its not possible to have any keyboard input sent to the host. In such cases, it helps to ssh in and kill vmware-vmx.
Unfortunately once you do that, the keyboard start acting weird - the Shift, control and Alt keys stop working and multiple keystrokes are not registered (press and hold 'a' and only one key is emitted, instead of multiple).
There is a workaround - just run 'setxkbmap'.
This isn't a full fix though, the only way to really fix the keyboard is to restart X.
And now for my final annoyance: I wanted to run multiple Windows guests on the Ubuntu host and kernel debug them using either kd or windbg running under wine.
I am able to run windbg and kd with wine, I was also able to convert the UDS that Workstation creates as the virtual serial port into a real named pipe using socat... but I had no luck connecting kd/windbg to the guest vm across that pipe.
Maybe someone in VmWare can help?
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