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OneRed3y3
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Pass thru Sound on 4.1 esxi

I have a host running ESXi 4.1 (build 320137) that has a Creative Soundblaster sound card installed. I am able to get sound on a virtual machine by
Configuring VMDirectPath I/O pass-through devices on the ESX host. It appears that only one virtual machine at a time can access the device. Is there way that multiple virtual machines can take use of the same device? If not how do others handle sound to their virtual machines. I am trying to have sound enabled on multiple virtual machines

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AndreTheGiant
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Correct... VMDirectPath is to pass a card to ONE single VM.

Andre

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OneRed3y3
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I understand that multiple virtual machines cannot take use of the same  device. My question is how do others handle sound to their virtual machines. I  am trying to have sound enabled on multiple virtual machines. Are they using third party applications?

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AndreTheGiant
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Sound could be use software driver and redirect with RDP (for a Windows machines).

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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