Sound Device cannot be opened any more

[skruf45]

Hi,

I have a XP-VM on a XP-Host using VMware Player.

I have enabled sound by adding these lines to the vmx-file:

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"[/b]

Everything was fine so far, but now I get the following error message when booting up the VM and as well when hitting the Audio-button of VMware Player:

The default sound device cannot be opened:

A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system. Failed to connect virtual device sound.[/b]

On the VM's Device Manager I find under "sound, video and game controllers"

Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)[/b]

Does anybody have a clue?

Thank you in advance!!!

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[skruf45]

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[tbaldridge]

I'm having the same problem. Can you remember what you did to fix it?

[catlit]

I had the same problem and I solved it by shutting down the VM, and editing the VM's configuration file by removing all lines that start with sound.xxxx. I saved the file, and restarted the VM, and everything worked.

[antoneti]

I made just that (removing lines with sound.*) and it didn't fix it, any other ideas?

My hostOS is Windows7 and the GuestOS is Kubuntu11 and using VMWare Player 3.1.4 build-385536

thanks in advance.

[Reibenbacher]

Hi.

the same problem for me.

No audio!

what to do?

PS: no error messages.

😞