This is a known problem and they are improving it. It depends on what your soundcard is and may still depend on when you boot the VM. Talking with their engineers at LinuxWorld two years ago, they found sound intermittent. Boot the VM and it works, boot again and it's choppy, boot again and it doesn't work, pull hair and repeat for random results. It sounds like for at least some cards, it works consistently. Look around on their Web site for details. Jeffrey Quoting Ron Cordell :

I just got around to installing VMWare from the SuSE distro CD's and getting that to run. What a cool package! It is weird to see M$ running in a virtual machine like that. Scary. Everything works, though, except sound. I am running from within KDE 2.1.2 . VMWare wants to use the /dev/dsp device, and while this does not generate errors, I am not getting any sound output. Any suggestions?

-ronc

-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck

** Reply to message from Ron Cordell on Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:58:29 -0400

VMWare wants to use the /dev/dsp device, and while this does not generate errors, I am not getting any sound output. Any suggestions?

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