winmm/midi tests and VMware

[Ben Klein]

On 3 March 2010 18:10, Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 01:30 AM, Ben Klein wrote:
>>
>> If I understand this correctly, Wine/the tests are correctly detecting
>> an MPU-401 "hardware" synth device because the driver is loaded, but
>> VMware doesn't emulate the hardware and ends up confusing Windows and
>> hanging (presumably due to some I/O wait). I'd call this a bug in
>> VMware.
>
> Well, one of my statements in the very first email was:
>
> "VMware Workstation officially only supports MIDI output via the synthesizer
> device."

Given that hardware connections to external synthesisers are, at least
in the Linux-side context, considered "synthesisers", I'm not sure
what you mean by this.

> --
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>