Guest operating system is Windows 7 and I have VMware player 6.0.1 installed. On it latest version of Mint Linux is run. The problem is Linux never gets sound. How do I fix this? The message "the default sound device cannot be opened" is given in the Player.
I tried following these instructions but the sound card is already there and the "connected" option is grayed out
I also tried these instructions but can't find any vmx
file however I can find a vmxf
file.
Best Answer
If
lspci|grep snd_ens1371
gives some output the sound kernel modules are loaded & sound is probably muted inalsamixer
. Muted channels show up as 'MM' & can be unmuted by selecting them & pressing M.If alsamixer does not detect a sound card run:
If you are using
pulseaudio
check/etc/asound.conf
contains a minimum of:I also changed the sound device settings in VMWARE to my detected speakers (from default host device).
Reboot & sound will work.
This fixed
xfce4-volume-control
/gstreamer
complaining no sound card can be found & warning of a possible permissions problem. Trying to run just ALSA under Debian Wheezy 64 bit in VMWARE still gave thisgstreamer
error. VMWARE seems to run a little better withpulseaudio
also being installed (sound in Virtualbox ran just fine with only ALSA).