No audio VMware server

[tajreed]

Using VMware server and Gutsy. And XP as a guest. Under settings, I am unable to add the sound function, both the add and remove functions are grayed out. Any ideas?

[obrient]

I had the same problem when I was first using VMWare. Since the sound card I believe is owned by the root user you need to run VMWare as root once to fix this. I found the fix (http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/enabling-audio-in-vmware-server/) here. This was easy to do with the directions.

[tajreed]

Tried that fix, but no luck.

[tajreed]

Virtual Machine must be off before enabling audio

[purefan]

had my machine shut down but still got this message:

Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Virtual device sound will start disconnected.


Even though no sound was audible from my host OS, any clue?