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VMWare PulseAudio HOWTO - VMware Technology Network VMTN
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VMWare-PulseAudio-HOWTO/td-p/1071166
VMware WS can't detect the sound card after unloading the modules "snd_oss_*" because "/dev/dsp" is automatically deleted when these modules are unloaded on recent Linux distributions. I got sound with VMware WS 6.5.0 and PulseAudio 0.9.8 in Fedora 8 on 32bit box after changing the setting to "/dev/dsp". (I didn't get sound with "Auto Detect".
Sound Blaster 16 on VMware Workstation 15.5 and VM ...
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro-Documents/Sound-Blaster-16-on-VMware-Workstation-15-5-and-VMware-Fusion-11/ta-p/2781947
For the first time, VMware Fusion on macOS hosts can emulate the Sound Blaster 16. Workstation has expanded capabilities on Linux hosts through the addition of ALSA and PulseAudio support to the Sound Blaster 16. OSS support has been deprecated.
Re:sound in vmware - was pulseaudio - Emacspeak
https://www.emacspeak.org/VCCS-archive/2008/msg00080.html
virtualization adds a whole layer of additional complexity to sound. I've not used vmware in many years now, but from memory the vmware settings include buffer sizes for the sound emulation device --- I suspect those need to be tweaked to match up with what alsa thinks it's using.
debian - How to prevent Pulseaudio to crash when I start a ...
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368332/how-to-prevent-pulseaudio-to-crash-when-i-start-a-virtual-machine-from-virtualbo
So if you run Pulseaudio in your main environment, and you've configured virtualbox to just "pass through" sound devices, the main Pulseaudio uses the device, so the virtualbox one can't. If virtualbux emulates the sound device, you have something else running in the virtualbox that opens it, for example a second Pulseaudio instance.
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