vmware sound problem

[Bryan O'Neal]

This has likely been answered already but... 

The driver for your sound card are not required by the VM installation,
the VM installation of windows can not see your sound card, instead it
sees only the virtual sound card and the VM software handles the calls
through the host OS to the real sound card.  The most likely scenario is
you forgot to plug in a virtual sound card.  Go to Edit Machine Settings
and see if there is a sound card in you hardware list.  If not then
click the +Add button and add one.  You may want to add a USB controller
at the same time.  As for the windows drivers, The sound card should use
standard SB16 drivers but to have your USB devices play nicely between
the host and the guest you should install the VMWare tools onto the gust
system.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ray
Cantwell
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:05 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: vmware sound problem

Jim,
    You will want to make sure that you have the proper sound drivers 
installed on the Windows guest OS. As far as VMWare is concerned the 
Windows install is a computer unto itself and will need all the drivers 
that any Windows box would need.
Ray


Jim wrote:
> Yesterday I downloaded and installed VMware for linux and installed 
> windows to run as a guest.  Everything works except the sound.  When I

> try to play a sound file on the guest (XP) it comes out sounding like 
> static with the last fraction of a second approaching something I
could 
> recognize as what I was supposed to hear.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>   

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