I’ve been messing around with Windows 7 in a virtual machine for quite a while now and I recently installed a new copy, but ran into one problem. For some reason, there was no sound output from my Windows 7 virtual machine. The other one worked fine, so it was really strange. If you’re not getting any sound from your Windows virtual machine in VMWare Fusion, there are a couple of troubleshooting steps you can take.
Eventually, I got the sound on my new Windows 7 VM to work, but it took a little bit of playing around before I could figure out what the problem was. In this article, I’ll walk you through a couple of possible solutions and hopefully one of them will work for you. If not, post a comment and I’ll get back to you with some help.
VMware Workstation provides a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 compatible audio device and supports sound in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows.NET Server and Linux guest operating systems. In the Select a Device Driver dialog box.
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- I want to run a LARGE Windows 7/XP VM. Like 50+ Gigabytes of ram and 4 cores. I need to be able to console in to this VM, but for alert purposes I need the VM to pass audio either back out to me via the console connection OR by USB speakers or something. I am on a Lenovo RD530 rack server running a XEON E5 6 core processor.
Method 1 – Check VM Settings
The first thing you want to do is make sure that the VM actually has sound enabled. You can do this by going to Virtual Machine and then clicking on Settings.
Click on Sound Card in the list of items under Removable Devices:
Make sure the switch is turned to On.
Note that if you don’t even have the Sound Card item under Removable Devices, you have to click on Add Device in the Settings dialog and then choose Sound Card. Then it will show up and then you can turn it on. If this was already enabled for you, then your problem is something else, so keep reading.
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Method 2 – Edit VMX File
There are also some configuration settings in your VMX file related to sound that could be causing the problem. You can open the VMX file for your VM by going to the Virtual Machine Library and then holding down the Option key and right-clicking on the VM. You’ll see an option to Open Config File in Editor.
Now you need to look for the following parameters and make sure they exist in the file:
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If these parameters are not in the file, you need to add them. Also, you need to remove the following parameters if they exist:
Go ahead and restart the VM once you have checked all of these parameters and hopefully your sound is working now! If not, you only have one more option left! Keep reading.
Method 3 – Update Audio Driver in VM
The last thing you can try is to update the audio driver from within the Windows virtual machine. To do this, you can right-click on My Computer and choose Manage. Then click on Device Manager on the left hand pane. Scroll down to Sound, video and game controllers and right-click on Creative AudioPCI (ES1371, ES1373) (WDM) if you’re running Windows XP or right-click on High Definition Audio Device.
Now go ahead and click on Update Driver Software and then click on Search automatically for updated driver software. Go ahead and restart the VM once the driver has been updated.
I want to run a LARGE Windows 7/XP VM. Like 50+ Gigabytes of ram and 4 cores. I need to be able to console in to this VM, but for alert purposes I need the VM to pass audio either back out to me via the console connection OR by USB speakers or something. I am on a Lenovo RD530 rack server running a XEON E5 6 core processor. All the info I find on how to do this seems out of date at best, and doesn't work on most. Any help would be appreciated.
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It looks like VMWare has added the capability to use HD audio. Here is what worked for me.
- Shut down your virtual machine
- In vSphere, right-click on the virual machine and select remove from inventory
- Select the root folder in the left panel of vSphere
- Select the Configuration tab
- Select Storage
- Right-click the datastore where your virtual machine is installed and select Browse datastore
- Open the folder for your virtual machine
- Right-click on the .vmx file and select Download
- Open the downloaded file in Notepad++
At the bottom of the file, add the following:
Note: Select an available pciSlotNumber. Review all of the PCI slots being used in your .vmx file, and select a slot number that is not currently being used.
- In the VMWare datastore, select upload files to this virtual machine, select the .vmx file, and upload it
- Right-click on the .vmx file, select Add to Inventory, and select Next, Next, Finish to add the virtual machine to inventory
- In the left panel of vSphere, right-click on the virtual machine and select Edit Settings
- In the virual machine dialog box, on the Hardware tab, there should now be an option HD audio
Boot the virtual machine. In the screen shot below, I am using a Linux CentOS virtual machine. Instead of CentOS outputing sound to Dummy Audio, CentOS is now output audio to HD Audio Controller.
On VMWare Workstation, a USB device gets plugged into the guest, as far as it can tell.If ESXi works the same way (I expect it does, just might be more formal about provisioning it) then a USB sound device ought to work. If it shows up under 'Sound, vided and game controllers' that ought to work.
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⋯yes, hardware version 7 or higher, noted in a manual for an older version. Also see references to USB3 being added at some point.