VMWare Server: No audio device in Windows XP guest

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:46 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In VMWare Server on my FC6 lappy I cannot get an audio device to work
> in Windows XP guest. The guest had an audio device under Kubuntu. I
> did add (in the guest) the drivers for the Creative 16/32 MB sound
> cards, but that did not help. Where to go from here?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

One of VMWare's biggest sins is their use of OSS instead of alsa.
You might want to install the alsa-oss package and start vmware with
aoss. *

- Gilboa
* Should work. Been a while since I tried it myself.