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Cannot connect virtual device sound.

When powering up a VM I always receive the message "Cannot connect virtual device sound. No corresponding device is available on the host.".

Environment: a newly installed Fedora 8 (clean install) host OS with VMware Workstation 6.0.2.

Previously I was running the identical version of VMware on Fedora 7 with the same VMs without any problems. The problem occurs with all VMs including those newly created on Fedora 8.

Nay ideas how to solve this?

Thanks.

arrkerr1024

I'm not running fedora core 8, but my guess would be that if you have sound working in fedora core 8 - which I assume you do - that you just don't have permissions to the right device or that the device is named something different than what you're pointing at.

See if you have /dev/audio, and if you do point vmware at it and see if that helps.

rit

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You are right sound works perfectly on the host OS.

I have a device /dev/audio1, there is no /dev/audio. Because of your suggestion I created /dev/audio as a symlink of /dev/audio1. However to no avail, same error message occurs.

How do I point vmware at a sound device? In the vmware configuration tab the only choice is 'Auto detect'.

How can I find out which device exactly vmware is looking for? Is there a configuration file somewhere where this can be seen?

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