Unable to migrate VM

[corsafr]

Hello,

I converted a desktop to a VM to work on VMware Workstation using VMware Converter.

After I migrate this VM from VMware Workstation to ESXi 6.7.

Now I have 2 issues :

• First I cannot migrate this VM. I have this error : "Virtual machine is configured to use a device that prevents the operation: Device 'HD audio ' has a backing type that is not supported. "This is a general limitation of the virtual machine's compatibility with the ESXi version of the selected host."
• Then the sound doesn't work on this VM

How can I solve this issue?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

[daphnissov]

ESXi does not support sound controllers. You must remove this device from the VM's configuration.

[corsafr]

Thanks for your quick reply daphnissov

In fact I saw some links like this sanbarrow.com  or  like this https://bohemiangrove.co.uk/sound-from-a-vm-on-esxi/ or this

http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/virtual-hd-audio-hardware-in-vsphere-5.html

I thought it was possible

Is it only for ESXi 5 and not 6.7 ?

If I go in settings on the virtual machine I don't see device for audio in the list.

But if I edit the vmx file I see some lines with audio.

How can I remove this ?

Thanks

[daphnissov]

It is technically possible but unsupported and can lead to instabilities. You will have to manually remove those lines from the VMX file and then reload the virtual machine.

[corsafr]

Thanks it works!

Regards,

[continuum]

> Device 'HD audio ' has a backing type that is not supported.

This does not mean that ESXi does not support virtual audio devices.

It means that the audio device specified in the vmx-file of your VM is invalid for an ESXi-host.

To clean up remove all parameters that start with sound.*

from the vmx-file and only keep

sound.present = "true"

Then ESXi will try to assign a soundcard for that VM on next boot  - if your host supports that.