VMWare Workstation 7 && no recording from headset micro in guest

[guru201110141]

Hello,
  
I run FreeBSD 8.x in a VMWare hosted on Win7. The VM presents the Intel HDA sound card of the laptop as AudioPCI ES1371-A

and I have to use the driver snd_es137x(4) which works fine with only the problem that I can not manage to record from the headset

micro.
 
The headset micro itself  works fine in Win7 and it switches between the laptop build-in micro and the headset micro on plug-in;

but in the VM only the build-in micro is working. What I have to do?

Thanks in advance

Matthias

[guru201110141]

I did some more tests and have now a clear picture:

1)
in Win7 you can control (System-control-->Sound-->Input) the input
devices (build-in micro ./. headset micro), you can test them there and
you can define which one is the default; if you set 'headset micro' as
default and pull it out, the default switches to build-in micro and back
again if you plug it in again;

2)
if you start the VM while a) headset micro is pluged-in and b) set as
default, the recording in Skype in the guest system works from headset micro;

YES, it works!

3)
if you pull out the headset micro, the recording (also in the VM with
Skype) falls back to build-in micro; but you can't switch back by
pluging it in again, is stays with build-in micro; even a FreeBSD guest
system reboot does not change it back; only a restart of VMWare bring
the headset micro again as default;

It looks like a bug in VMWare or Win7, I think, and nothing we could
address here in FreeBSD world.

Is there a way to file a bug report in vmware.com?

Thanks

    Matthias

[guru201110141]

... and

4)

If you plug-in the headset micro and disable in Win7 the build-in micro, sound gets recorded again from the headset micro.

This is not a fine solution, but a least a workaround.

Matthias