I would highly appreciate if the Vmware developers would put a bit more effort in audio support on Linux hosts. I found it disappointing that the size of the vmware-server package grew by almost 500% (from around 100Mb to 0.5 Gb), but still no noticable improvements on the audio side. OSS is stoneage and todays standard is ALSA - including full plugin support. Other virtualization solutions have even started supporting the Pulseaudio sound server.