VMware Player - no sound

[Technique]

 

Any takers on resolving that in VMware?

 

[theefool]

I got the same error when I booted the .iso.  But, after installing, sound worked okay after I connected audio.

 

But, I'm using VMware Workstation Pro 16.2.4.

 

In addition I used "Use default host sound card".

Edited August 8, 2022 by theefool

[Technique]

On 08/08/2022 at 12:24, theefool said:

 

In addition I used "Use default host sound card".

Just tried this now - no different I'm afraid.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

what happens if you switch it to default or use one of the other options in the list?

[Technique]

On 08/08/2022 at 18:51, Brandon H said:

what happens if you switch it to default or use one of the other options in the list?

Well I selected them all & it did nothing as mentioned previous.

 

Instead of starting from fresh, I have just now RESTARTED Linux.

 

On startup it actually made a noise that certainly haven't heard in Windows before.

 

But then when I do anything that would produce sound, even testing the audio, there's no audio coming through.

 

 

 

In fact, Googling Linux sounds, the sound I heard was the Linux startup sound but then there was nothing after this. No sound for shutdown.

[theefool]

I used the launch player from the volume control, selected rhythm box, and selected radio and used a random station.  Worked fine.  But....

 

I don't have a startup sound or shutdown sound.  So, I opened the sound app and got that same error you got and now sound is gone.

[theefool]

I followed this:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Workstation-Player-16-2-3-A-device-id-has-been-used-that-is-out/td-p/2913236

Essentially power off your VM, add the following to your VM's .vmx file.

 

sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"

 

 

My audio now works..music is fine and radio/startup audio works.

[Technique]

On 09/08/2022 at 08:59, theefool said:

I followed this:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Workstation-Player-16-2-3-A-device-id-has-been-used-that-is-out/td-p/2913236

Just wondering if that's the link you meant to provide?

 

As when I click it it just looks like someone saying what problem they have without any solution, so nothing really to "follow"?

On 09/08/2022 at 08:59, theefool said:

Essentially power off your VM, add the following to your VM's .vmx file.

 

sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"

 

 

My audio now works..music is fine and radio/startup audio works.

You've lost me I'm afraid.

 

vmx file?

 

I got the power off your VM bit though

 

 

 

EDIT - Never mind that, I figured it out. It seems to have worked. Thanks for your help.

 

Why did it take that to fix audio though? Why didn't it just work from the get go?

Edited August 9, 2022 by Technique

[theefool]

On 09/08/2022 at 04:13, Technique said:

Just wondering if that's the link you meant to provide?

 

As when I click it it just looks like someone saying what problem they have without any solution, so nothing really to "follow"?

You've lost me I'm afraid.

 

At the top of that link has an edit with the fix.

[Technique]

On 09/08/2022 at 14:06, theefool said:

At the top of that link has an edit with the fix.

Ah I missed that originally.

 

The question in my edit remains though.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

weird; my guess is a bug in the GUI setting that manually editing the config file gets around.

 

Haven't run into that issue myself but it's also been a while since I've run VMWare Player as my laptop I do VMs on is running Ubuntu as the host right now so I've been using mostly VirtualBox when needed.