I have googled and searched the forums and havent found an answer to getting sound to work in vmware workstation 5.
My host os is gentoo and am I running an windows xp pro guest. Everything in the guest works fine except sound.
When the guest is started vmware says that it can not found the virtual device.
my audio card:
lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
sounds work fine on the host using alsa, but I have read other posts that vmware works better with oss enabled, so i recompiled the kernel with oss support and installed the oss libaries and alsa-oss, but still am getting the same result.
The relevant part of the vmware logs says
Quote:
Aug 16 03:14:25: vmx| Msg_Question:
Aug 16 03:14:25: vmx| [msg.noAutodetectBackingQuestion] Cannot connect virtual device sound. No corresponding device is available on the host.
Aug 16 03:14:25: vmx|
Aug 16 03:14:25: vmx| Would you like an attempt to be made to connect this virtual device every time you power on the virtual machine?----------------------------------------
Aug 16 03:14:27: vmx| Msg_Question: msg.noAutodetectBackingQuestion reply=1
Aug 16 03:14:27: vmx| Msg_Post: Error
Aug 16 03:14:27: vmx| [msg.device.badconnect] Failed to connect virtual device sound.
|
This is the sound parts of my vmx file ( the default )
Quote:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
|
It seems many people have had problems with this but I could not find any answers so hopefully someone here knows.