Details

• Windows XP-based guest operating system is unable to connect to sound device at boot
• Connecting to a sound device fails

This article provides steps to ensure your audio is working in a Windows XP virtual machine.

Solution

To ensure audio is working in a Windows XP virtual machine:

1. Power off the virtual machine.
2. Navigate to <Your user folder>/Documents/Virtual Machines/<Windows XP VM> . Note, this is the default location for virtual machines. If you have specified a different location, your VM will not be in this folder.
3. Right-click <Windows XP VM> and choose Show Package Contents.
4. Open the .vmx file in a text editor.
5. Ensure the following parameters are present:
   • sound.present = "TRUE"
   • sound.filename = "-1"
   • sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
   • Add the parameters to the file if they are not present, or modify the parameters if they are showing different values.
6. In the same .vmx file, remove these lines if they exist:
   • sound.virtualdev = "sb16"
   • sound.virtualdev = "es1371"
7. Save the changes and close the text editor.
8. Power on the virtual machine.

Source

• VMware Self-Service - Audio is not working in Windows XP virtual machine