fedora 24 guest: the default sound device cannot be opened

[neuronetv]

I'm running a dell 780 desktop with windows 10 64 bit and vmware workstation 12 player. I've installed a fedora 24 64 bit guest machine and I've got a problem with the sound device so...

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

The sound device in windows 10 shows up as a High Definition Audio Device and it works fine. I've been trawling google but can't find a solution that works for fedora 24. In the fedora 24 guest the sound device shows up as: Analogue Output: ES1371/Creative Labs CT2518/ES1373 (AudioPCI 64V/128 / CreativeCT4810/CT5803/CT5806 [Sound Blaster PCI]

In vmware settings the sound card is set to auto-detect with a dot in 'use default host sound card'.

Can anyone help get the sound working?

[neuronetv]

update: I've discovered the problem is with vmware player, not the fedora 24 guest. Still no solution though. I've installed fedora 22 and fedora 24 and also imported a fedora 18 vm form another host machine that worked fine and all three have a problem with sound. Thanks for any help.

[www23456]

try add:

sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"  or "es1371"

in .vmx file