I haven't tried this option myself but I would think you would have to disable the sound in the VM configuration so that it won't conflict with the USB sound device passthrough.Īs for the KB, I just hope that some VMware employee sees it and updates it. And thus in such scenario, the USB sound device would be the sound controller inside the VM.
As to which sound device it uses on the host, the closest thing would be the preferred device drop down list box in the VM configuration.Īlternatively, there are USB sound controllers, so in theory these can be passed through to the VM just like USB thumb drive and other USB devices are passed to the VM. The host sound device won't show up in the VM as PCIe device passthrough is not yet supported in Workstation Pro.įor Windows 7/8/10 VMs, the virtual sound device will either be Microsoft High Definition Audio (sound.virtualdev = "hdaudio") or the VMware VMaudio (i.e.