I try to play sound from my monitoring application, which is an xp virtual machine on VMware ESX 3, on a physical machine with a real sound card, but I can not add from the ESX console sound card.
Currently, I transmit sound with opening an RDP session and play it in this session.
I would like to play sound without openning RDP session, do you have a solution to add a virtual sound card and then stream it with vlc?
Best Answer
There is no way to support audio (or USB) inside of ESX and maintain portability/HA/vMotion according to VMWare. Sound is, as you already know, supported through RDP though. This works because audio is redirected to your machine which initiated the RDP session.