Anyone know if a bug has been officially filed? If not, how does one go about doing this?

I too am having sound issues with Ubuntu 9.10, however I'm using Fusion 2.0.6. I uninstalled PulseAudio and it made no difference. I'm running Fusion on a MacBook Pro (model 3,1) 2.4Ghz CPU and 4GB of RAM. I'm inclined to think this is a Fusion driver issue since another poster indicated he has sound under Parallels 5. Hopefully the Fusion team will get out an update to address this.

If you completely removed pulseaudio you may need to run sudo apt-get esound

To get a workable control panel you can use the older gnome sound control panel.

http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3324

Quick takeaway:

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"....For Ubuntu 9.10: one cannot access the sound preferences without having
PulseAudio installed (i.e. clicking on System->Preferences->Sound
results in an error message "waiting for sound system to respond").
However, one can still run the old gnome-sound-properties with a couple
of files. The attached file has 32bit/x86 and 64bit/x86-64 versions of
the old gnome-sound-properties program go to link for files. Move sound-properties.glade
(this file is not architecture-dependent) to
/usr/local/share/gnome-control-center/glade/ (you'll probably need to
create this directory). Move the appropriate version of the
gnome-sound-properties file to /usr/local/bin. You can run this program
from the command-line or create a shortcut for it..."

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Once done I created a launcher from the panel for the gnome-sound-properties--works fine.

It would be nice to eventually tune all the fusion/9.10 pulse issues, but for the fast fix removing pulse audio and installing esound along with adding in the gnome-sound-properties bin worked fine for the meantime.

The ubuntu-desktop package is just a meta package: it only links to other packages that will be installed/removed when you invoke the install/remove commands. Upon removing pulseaudio (which causes an awful lot of sounds related problems on different distributions; users have been ranting about ever since it's being used in Ubuntu and others) you might be notified that this is part of the ubuntu-desktop meta package and this will be unselected. You can safely acknowledge this message as it will only unmark the ubuntu-desktop package as being installed, it will not change anything else and it won't remove any package.

Same story goes for kubuntu-desktop (for kubuntu users) and xubuntu-desktop (xubuntu users).

Ubuntu 9.10 is not (yet) a supported OS. So you really have no right to complain.

As long as you are using an unsupported OS you never have any rights to complain regardless of time and regardless of what the competition is doing. If you don't like it then use the competitors product!

VMware Fusion 3 has some issues with supported OSes so if you have a problem running a supported OS then by all means complain however if is not supported then what don't you understand about it's not supported?!

I actually now use Parallels as my primary virtualization product on the Mac however I do use other VMware products on Windows and Linux Hosts and now only use Fusion to support my Clients that use Fusion. I'm also a strong proponent when it comes to pointing out something that isn't right with a supported OS or product feature that has issues under a supported OS or is being used in a supported manner however no one has any rights to complain about something that is not working under an unsupported OS, product or manner in any situation where unsupported is a factor and VMware clearly and plainly states what Guest OSes it supports under what VMware products and other system requirements so once again were back at the fact that Ubuntu 9.10 is not (yet) a supported Guest OS and until VMware chooses to officially support it then no one has any rights to complain about it. Did you, or anyone else for that matter, pay any money for a VMware product that states it supports Ubuntu 9.10? NO! So stop complaining about it. If you want to point it out politely and kindly request it be supported as soon as possible that certainly is acceptable however anything other then that is out of line since you or anyone else has not paid any money for a VMware product that states it supports Ubuntu 9.10!

IMHO, the latter is preferable, because it's clear what it means: that VMware supports those specific versions of the Ubuntu OS.

Parallels' declaration that it supports "Ubuntu", on the other hand, is unclear. Does it claim to support all released versions of Ubuntu, from the oldest to the most recent? Or only certain versions? More to the point, does it support the specific version of Ubuntu you want to run on it? Given that a Google search for "parallels ubuntu 9.10" finds a number of forum posts from people having trouble installing Parallels tools on Ubuntu 9.10, I don't think the answer to that question is the one you seem to think it is.

FWIW, I too would love to see Fusion support for Ubuntu 9.10, and more generally, I'd like to see VMware roll out compatibility updates for new versions of Ubuntu more quickly, since testing versions of Ubuntu releases are available months in advance of their release, and there's no reason VMware couldn't update their tools well in advance of a release.

I also disagree that we shouldn't complain about this issue. Complaining about issues is one of the primary reasons for this forum! How else would VMware learn about the issues their customers are facing and which they might want to address?

However, I do think that it's important to be respectful when complaining and not assume incompetence or malevolence.