I have just installed Debian 8.1 Jessie on a virtual machine and have discovered that there is no sound coming from the computer. However, when I try to play sound when I am not in the virtual machine, I am able to. I tried testing sound by checking my harware setup in Audio and Video Setting>Audio Hardware setup and clicking "front left" and "front right" to check my speakers but no sound came out. I just installed this OS and I have done nothing but install adobe flash player, install chromium, install guest additions, and edit visudo. Please Help me, I have no idea what to do because I have never had this problem when previously using linux on another computer!

Might help, or not

https://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/d...vidsound4.html

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i think you should first troubleshoot the debian setup as if it wasn't virtual.

there's a few common things to check out - the very first of which would be:
open "alsamixer" in a terminal and see that all relevant channels are unmuted.

if that doesn't help, search for more advice on how to troubleshoot sound problems on debian and your debian's desktop environment (which you haven't told us yet. iirc, the default is gnome these days? or kde?). leave out the vm bit for now.

Thank You soooooooo much, it turns out I had to change the audio driver in Oracle VM. Sorry for the late reply, I have a lot of stuff happeining right now. By the way, ondoho, I am running kde.

Welcome aboard.