[ale] Netflix on Linux

[William Fragakis]

Inspired by this, I installed Silverlight on one of my XP kvm guests. I
had no idea that sound was so broken in Fedora/kvm. Had I known that, it
would have saved me hours of grief when I couldn't get sound to work in
an OSX86* guest despite faithfully following instructions in several
locations. In both OSX and XP, the vm sees the hardware but sound system
prefs/control panels don't show a device to control.

I found some of the work arounds but, if I read them correctly, require
you to start vms from the CLI which takes some of the fun out of
virt-manager and some ownership changes that I'm not completely
comprehending. I've been using a gui for 23 years and some stuff is
easier with a mouse - for me.

If anyone has found easy ways or can explain a bit better on how to get
sound working in Fedora/kvm/virt-manager or could suggest another distro
to play with, I'm all ears/eyes.

thanks,
William

*Leopard works well with some network/irq hacks. Snow Leo has the awful
8139 issue which the 10.5 hacks didn't help and network speed is
dialup-esuqe. All on an AMD host.



On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:13 -0500, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> Happy Holidays all.....
> 
> I'm curious to know if any of you who do Netflix and stream most of
> your content have found a work-around for the M$/Silverlight
> requirement.  I know that Netflix requires Mac or Microsoft and
> doesn't like Chrome in the least little bit.  I've been wondering if
> Netflix could be spoofed into running on a virtual machine.
> 
> Since we've moved from Internet facing machines running Windows to
> Fedora and Ubuntu we're "fat-n-happy" but we do want to stream Netflix
> but don't want Internet facing systems running M$.  Right now that
> sticks us with watching Netflix only on our one XP laptop or on our
> Blue-Ray player.  My last call to Netflix tech support ended with them
> saying to install O$ X or Window$.  : (
> 
> I'm sorry Dave...I'm afraid I can't do that... 
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