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I would like to stream music to my Ventrilo server from a Windows XP virtual machine running on an ESXi host.

I have followed the instructions outlined here to stream music from something like VLC to the Ventrilo server on another machine and it works fine.

I have also added the lines: 

sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

to my .vmx file, as suggested here, to get a sound card in my VM.

The problem I am having is that it seems that my VM is not outputting any sound, so there's nothing to stream through Ventrilo. The Device Manager on the VM shows that this new sound card has drivers and doesn't appear to have any concerns with it.

Can someone point me in the right direction to get my desired outcome?

studiohack
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omghai2u
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Another solution is:

Host <> Virtual Audio Cable <> Ventrilo

sblair
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Ivan
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I installed Virtual Audio cable 4.10 on my Windows 2000 Guest OS running on ESXi. I works no problem. As a small test I used Speak freely and was able to broadcast audio. I then tested remote control and that worked like a charm after I enabled Voice over IP.

Tamara Wijsman
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paul
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If you read through the entire thread that you have linked, you will see that there is no working solution. ESXi is meant for server virtualization where sound is not an issue. There is no way to get virtual audio directly on an ESXi client.

If you are working on the VM, you can get the audio through RDP, but this doesn't help you. Unfortunately it looks like you're out of luck.

MDMarra
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I believe the only working solution for this under ESXi to actually attach your sound device to the VM using VMDirectPath. Of course, this probably won't work for you since it requires your CPU and motherboard to support VT-d. Only Intel Nehalem chips (Xeon 5500) and newer Core i5 (Core i5-650/660/670/680) and some Core i7 have support for this, but it lets you attach a PCIe device (or all your PCI devices behind a PCIe-PCI bridge) directly to a VM.

I run ESXi on a Core i5 Lenovo ThinkServer TS200v and the onboard Intel HD Audio works great attached to a Windows VM.

notpeter
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