[ale] Netflix on Linux

[Richard Bronosky]

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:55 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> 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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