Sound under VMWare [was: Mouse fix]

[Jon Escombe]

On 15/05/09 04:23, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 21:35 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
>> According to the FAQ, VMWare should be using ALSA, and if not, that's a
>> bug which should be reported to the VMWare maintainers.
>
> According to this article:
>
> http://mike.magin.org/2009/01/08/using-alsa-for-sound-with-vmware-workstation-65-on-an-ubuntu-804-host/
>
> VMware Workstation 6.5 still uses OSS by default, but you can force it
> (in theory at least) to use ALSA. But this has not worked for me as yet.
> I still can do some poking around in it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris

So in theory adding the  following line to /etc/vmware/config should use 
the pulseaudio wrapper instead, but unfortunately it didn't work either 
(I don't see the wrapper library even being loaded)...

preload "/usr/lib/libpulsedsp.so"

Regards.
Jon