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Asked: 2020-02-13 09:46:32 +0800 CST

How to get the sound on a VMware ESXi virtual machine?

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We are using VCSA 6.7 with five ESXi 6.7 hosts and multiple VMs are are running inside the ESXi hosts.

I have no sound card installed on the ESXi hosts but we need sound from VMs. Can we do that?

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  1. As far as I know, no sound card is needed on the ESXi host. The VMWare virtual sound driver installed with VMTools (or the Microsoft "Remote Audio" driver) will be utilized to pass sound from the VM. I'm seeing "Remote Audio" as my audio device via RDP on a Windows Server 2019 VM on ESXi 6.7. Not certain if the hardware has sound on the chipset but it certainly doesn't have a discrete card.

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