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Re: Leopard Guest Sound Driver

DaveP — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:42:24 GMT

I am using a guest for testing purposes, and since not meant to use Leopard client version not much choice apart from Server. I am aware that need to edit VMX file, and have used settings from a Workstation guest. Sound works fine via Airfoil without modifying the VMX file.

Re: Leopard Guest Sound Driver

IamTHEvilONE — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:21:39 GMT

DaveP,

Why would you want sound on (snow) Leopard Server?

By default, no Sound card is presented to the virtual machine. Therefore you need to at least edit the virtual machine's settings to include a sound device, then it will be presented same or similar hardware to the host.

Regards,

EvilOne
VMware vExpert 2009

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Leopard Guest Sound Driver

DaveP — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:33:50 GMT

I need sound in a Mac OS X guest on Fusion 2.0.4. The only driver that supports the virtual sound evice comes from the Hackintosh community and is pretty old and does work well. In the meantime I have been using Airfoil very successfully to use the VMware virtual network to send sound to the host. It doesn't stutter too much and I can certainly listen to music from iTunes from it.

So the question is are there any other options currently for sound support in a Mac guest? (I do realise sound isn't currently formally supported by VMware).