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.
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.
I've run
vmkchdev -l | grep 4397
on the host (SSH) and it shows the following
0000:00:12.0 1002:4397 1043:8389 vmkernel
0000:00:13.0 1002:4397 1043:8389 vmkernel
suggesting that the audio device (id: 4397) is detected and installed.
Even running
esxcfg-info | less
and searching for
/4397
shows that the PCI device is there and recognized as the AMD south bridge.
So if everything is supposedly looking OK, why is there no sound coming out of the speaker.
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.
