Adding sound controller on virtual machine.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

No Audio device found in virtual machine.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server

ESXi host

Resolution

 In case no sound card available on virtual machine then it can be added using vSphere Client.

Steps 

1. Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
2. Right-click a virtual machine in the list and select Edit settings from the pop-up menu.
3.  On the Virtual Hardware tab, select Add other device and select Sound controller from the drop-down menu.

       

     

The sound controller appears in the list of available hardware devices for the virtual machine.

    4.From the Sound card drop-down menu, select which sound controller to connect to the virtual machine.

     5.Click Save.

Additional Information

Refer this document for additional details.

After adding the sound controller, you will find similar entry as below in .vmx file for virtual machine. 

sound.autoDetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
sound.present = "TRUE"