Newbie question.. audio?

[jesse_gardner]

I've built and administer a fairly large VI3 environment. Now that my company is considering VDI, this has led me to my first question: ESX VM's don't virtualize an audio driver. I know RDP can support audio, but where can the audio come from if the Windows XP VM doesn't have a (virtual) sound card?

[epping · Accepted solution]

it only needs a sound card to play sound, so if your device that you connect RDP from has sound you will be OK

[jesse_gardner]

Aaah yes. I feel silly for not having noticed that before. By default (I think) Windows Server disables audio mapping over RDP.

Thanks.

[TomHowarth]

Another gotcha, remember that RDP audio is only downstream, not upstream, so no VOIP