I am using VMware for the first time in my home lab. I've been using it for about 3 weeks now. I have ESXI on a server with a SuperMicro motherboard that didn't have a sound card. I added a PCI-e sound card to it today and am trying to figure out how to get the card setup to work with a Windows 7 virtual client.
I went through the steps at this link: Virtual HD Audio Hardware in vSphere 5 | Virtualization and I was able to get everything working in the client, however I still had no sound.
I then found info about enabling pass through, however none of the options look to be my sound card.
I tried enabling "Intel Corp C600/x79 series chipset PCI express virtual root port" and its sub device, "Intel Corp C600/x79 series chipset SMBus Controller 0" This didn't seem to do anything for the sound card. However it did also enable the 4port SCU, which I cannot get to disable now and as causing me to loose 4 sata ports (was using them as individual hard drives for vm's).
Anyone have any ideas on how I could get this sound card enabled? It's an Asus DGX.
Less important question, anyone have any clue how I can get the pass through to not be enabled now? Every time I disable it and reboot it is enabled again. I tried editing /etc/vmware/esx.conf and changing them from passthur to vmkernel as I found in an article. Still reboots as enabled and goes back to passthru in the conf file.
Thanks for any help.
