Editing .vmx file cause corruption

[Kogha]

Not sure if it's okay to bump a thread related to my issues as this is the only thread that mentions my problem of editing VMX files but not for the purpose of the OP:

My VMworkstation only has these for sound parameters which means I can only use my host audio card for the VM: 

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.present = "TRUE"

Trying to add any one of these (I do just one) sound.fileName = "Creative SB Live! Series"
sound.fileName = "Creative Sound Blaster PCI"
sound.fileName = "Crystal WDM Audio"
sound.fileName = "NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio"
sound.fileName = "SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [A000]"
sound.fileName = "SoundMAX Digital Audio"
sound.fileName = "YAMAHA AC-XG WDM Audio"

Corrupts the VMX file and thus I cannot change the VM sound card to something different.  This website says  you can do it but it doesn't work for me.  http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-sound.html

[a_p_]

I created a new discussion from your reply to an old post, to receive better attention.

What's the exact error message, and is a new vmware.log file created, which may contain more details?

André

[Kogha]

It says it's corrupt until I put the unedited Windows XP VMX file back.  I hope I don't get yelled at for saying this:

  On the actual VM modifcations I only have HOST Audio so I tried playing with various older versions on Archive.org to see if maybe it was an update but version 15 seems to cause random BSOD on my Windows 10 after a message telling me this 'app is not fully supported' asking me if I wanted to continue at my own risk so I remain at 16 that's the only version supported by 10.

[wila]

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@a_p_ wrote:

I created a new discussion from your reply to an old post, to receive better attention.

What's the exact error message, and is a new vmware.log file created, which may contain more details?

André

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The user already had another thread active on this here: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/No-Sound-Dev-options-Cannot-change-sound-ca...

So now there's 2.

the sound.filename parameter should not be set, just keep it at -1.

It does not do what the user thinks it does. The only reason I pointed to Ulli's site (sanbarrow.com) was because it got the syntax for .virtualDev instead of .dev that they thought it was.

The soundblaster feature is explained in the OTHER link I posted as well.

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Wil

[Kogha]

So there's no way to add any of those different sound card in the VMX files other then my host audio?  These are the settings again on my VMX file. sound.autoDetect = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.present = "TRUE"

I want to be able to change it to Crystal Audio somehow but don't know what to do since I lack the Sound.Dev options.