

Under **Group Policy Objec, specify the Group Policy object that you want (for example, **Local Computer Polic), and then click **Finis.

On the **Fil menu, click **Add/Remove Snap-i.Ĭlick **Group Policy Object Edito, and then click **Ad. In the **Ope box, type mmc, and then click **O. After turning the below item on in group policy and applying it to the desktops in question the sound now works! No need for a driver in the ESX box, the RDP client does bring the sound back to the connecting laptop.Įnable the "Allow Audio Redirection" Group Policy Setting Go ahead and restart the VM once the driver has been updated.It is a group policy issue. Now go ahead and click on Update Driver Software and then click on Search automatically for updated driver software. Scroll down to Sound, video and game controllers and right-click on Creative AudioPCI (ES1371, ES1373) (WDM) if you’re running Windows XP or right-click on High Definition Audio Device. Then click on Device Manager on the left hand pane. To do this, you can right-click on My Computer and choose Manage.

The last thing you can try is to update the audio driver from within the Windows virtual machine. Go ahead and restart the VM once you have checked all of these parameters and hopefully your sound is working now! If not, you only have one more option left! Keep reading. Also, you need to remove the following parameters if they exist: sound.virtualdev = "sb16"sound.virtualdev = "es1371"sound.virtualdev = "hdaudio" If these parameters are not in the file, you need to add them. Now you need to look for the following parameters and make sure they exist in the file: sound.present = "TRUE"sound.filename = "-1"todetect = "TRUE" You’ll see an option to Open Config File in Editor. You can open the VMX file for your VM by going to the Virtual Machine Library and then holding down the Option key and right-clicking on the VM. There are also some configuration settings in your VMX file related to sound that could be causing the problem. If this was already enabled for you, then your problem is something else, so keep reading. Then it will show up and then you can turn it on. Note that if you don’t even have the Sound Card item under Removable Devices, you have to click on Add Device in the Settings dialog and then choose Sound Card.
