[CentOS] sound problem

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Paolo Supino <paolo.supino at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>   I can't wait until CentOS 5.3 is released :-( The bigger issue is that I
> also have windows xp running as a guest inside a vmware server (version 2)
> and since vmware doesn't discover the audio devices properlly (because linux
> claims to not have them), there's no sound in Windows ...
>

This one should be pretty obvious.  VMWare Server runs on the host OS,
so it only has access to those devices that the host OS can use.  If
the speakers "don't work" on the host, a guest is not going to be able
to do anything with them.

mhr