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You will need to use Remote Desktop Connection, to pass through audio.<br />
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Virtual Machines have no audio hardware.<br />
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How are you connecting to the VM ?
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You will need to use Remote Desktop Connection, to pass through audio.

Virtual Machines have no audio hardware.

How are you connecting to the VM ?

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Infact ESX server itself do not have audio hardware drivers<br />
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as a fact audio cannot be pass thru from base hardware to VM<br />
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As stated above RDP can be only solution
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Infact ESX server itself do not have audio hardware drivers

as a fact audio cannot be pass thru from base hardware to VM

As stated above RDP can be only solution

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This did the trick, thanks!
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I have a Server 2012 R2 VM running on an ESXi 5.5 host. The VM is running the latest version of virtual hardware, v10 and has the latest VMware tools installed. I have enabled Desktop Experience feature. I can not get the audio to work, when I right-click on the speaker in taskbar -&gt; Playback devices it shows 'no audio devices installed'. I have also verified the audio service is running. Any ideas?
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I have a Server 2012 R2 VM running on an ESXi 5.5 host. The VM is running the latest version of virtual hardware, v10 and has the latest VMware tools installed. I have enabled Desktop Experience feature. I can not get the audio to work, when I right-click on the speaker in taskbar -> Playback devices it shows 'no audio devices installed'. I have also verified the audio service is running. Any ideas?

Enabling Audio in Server 2012 R2 on a VMware Server

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.