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VM Audio not working

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Article ID: 423613

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Windows 11 VM Audio is "choppy" after OS patch upgrade to 25H2.

Environment

vSphere 8.0

This was only happening on hosts with AMD processors, not Intel.

Cause

VM hardware version is set to 19, which was introduced at ESXi 7.0 U2.

Resolution

Set the VM's hardware version to 21, which was introduced in ESXi 8.0 U2.  This resolved the issue.

 

Virtual machine hardware versions