Add virtual sound card to virtual machine

[bandersfdjhefjh]

Hello, for demonstration purposes a user needs to produce sound from a virtual machine and stream the sound through remote desktop connection and have therefore requested that I should provide a virtual sound card for that very purpose.

I am pretty sure that this cannot be done without having physical sound cards in the host servers and a software-based solution only is not possible or am I wrong? Also, I suppose you would need to add sound cards to all host servers or there would be problems with the HA functionality?

[AWo]

I am pretty sure that this cannot be done without having physical sound cards in the host servers and a software-based solution only is

not possible or am I wrong?

No, you're right.

Also, I suppose you would need to add sound cards to all host servers or there would be problems with the HA functionality?

I'm not sure if that'll work but you may look into this: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40/admin/t_add_passthrough_device.html

AWo

VCP 3 & 4

\[:o]===\[o:]

=Would you like to have this posting as a ringtone on your cell phone?=

=Send "Posting" to 911 for only $999999,99!=

[athlon_crazy]

When connecting VM via RDP, If not mistaken, we should able to use the client

machines audio right I think RDP should have this option. BTW, I never heard VM able to use ESX 4 host sound card

vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta

vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite

[bandersfdjhefjh]

It is possible to redirect sound to the client sound card instead but the original virtual server must be able to process sound in order to redirect it or did you refer to something else?

[RParker]

It is possible to redirect sound to the client sound card instead but the original virtual server must be able to process sound in order to redirect it or did you refer to something else?

yes that's what we mean, and ESX does NOT support sound redirect. It does work in Windows RDP even with no Audio support on the host.

[bandersfdjhefjh]

I am not sure I fully understand the answer: the ESX does not support sound redirect but the Windows RDP can utilize the client sound card without no physical card on the host? This sounds a bit contradictory to me, at the moment the virtual server cannot even start sound at all since no corresponding audio driver is installed so basically there is no sound to redirect to the remote client in the first place.

What I had in mind that perhaps there were some kind of "virtual redirect driver " that could be installed on the guest machine so the sound will be RDP-redirected and processed on the client machine?

Or should I simply tell the user that his intended setup simply is not possible? TYhanks!

[bandersfdjhefjh]

It turns out it was indeed possible to redirect the sound to remote desktop for client processing by following the steps at:

http://www.emware.nl/articles/no-sound-in-esx-esxi-through-rdp.html