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    <title>topic Re: No audio on host from guest vm in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405664#M134598</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Perhaps I'm confused, but is it not possible for ESXi to treat the audio device like a general-purpose OS treats the audio device and mixes the output from various VMs, instead of a passthrough to a specific vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:19:03 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>bill012</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-02-19T05:19:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>No audio on host from guest vm</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405662#M134596</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've searched high and low for this question, but either the answers don't work, or the resource is very old, or they talk about RDP - which does not apply in my case.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm running ESXi 6 on ASUS M4A77TD motherboard. Everything is running perfectly - both Linux and Windows (7 and 2012) guests are operating fine. Even the HDAudio device is picked up and the guests appear to be playing sound through the mixer. However I cannot hear anything from the speakers attached to the host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've run&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code _jivemacro_uid_14555319771168167 jive_text_macro" jivemacro_uid="_14555319771168167"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;vmkchdev -l | grep 4397&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;on the host (SSH) and it shows the following&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code _jivemacro_uid_14555320205241652 jive_text_macro" jivemacro_uid="_14555320205241652"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;0000:00:12.0 1002:4397 1043:8389 vmkernel&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;0000:00:13.0 1002:4397 1043:8389 vmkernel&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;suggesting that the audio device (id: 4397) is detected and installed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Even running&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro _jivemacro_uid_14555320784467415" jivemacro_uid="_14555320784467415"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;esxcfg-info | less&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;and searching for&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code _jivemacro_uid_14555320957404380 jive_text_macro" jivemacro_uid="_14555320957404380"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;/4397&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;shows that the PCI device is there and recognized as the AMD south bridge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So if everything is supposedly looking OK, why is there no sound coming out of the speaker.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As a background, the current setup (machine and speakers) were operating fine with Windows as the host and guests running inside vmware workstation as shared vms - I had sound just hours ago. Yet the ESXi installation gives no sound on the same setup. Please help.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:33:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405662#M134596</guid>
      <dc:creator>bill012</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-15T10:33:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: No audio on host from guest vm</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405663#M134597</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm not sure you can pass-through audio-ports of your on-board/southbridge sound chip. I think you need add-on pcie sound-card...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:32:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405663#M134597</guid>
      <dc:creator>JarryG</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-16T09:32:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: No audio on host from guest vm</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405664#M134598</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Perhaps I'm confused, but is it not possible for ESXi to treat the audio device like a general-purpose OS treats the audio device and mixes the output from various VMs, instead of a passthrough to a specific vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:19:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/No-audio-on-host-from-guest-vm/m-p/1405664#M134598</guid>
      <dc:creator>bill012</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-02-19T05:19:03Z</dc:date>
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