Hi,
I have just recently upgraded my system to a new Mac Pro (MacPro6,1 - the coffee can style).
I have a set of speakers hooked up to the line out on the Mac Pro, and sound works fine in OS X.
I am using VMware Fusion 6.0.2.
However, I am having a peculiar sound issue in all my Windows VMs.
When I power them on, I get a notice stating:
Cannot connect the virtual device sound because no corresponding device is available on the host.
Do you want to try to connect this virtual device every time you power on the virtual machine?
No Yes
If I click no, I get asked the question again and again in an endless loop.
If I click yes, Windows starts, and the sound works, except it comes out of the internal speaker on the Mac Pro rather than the speakers on the line out.
I have multiple Windows VMs, (XP, Vista, and 7), and this problem affects all of them.
VMWare tools is up to date in all the VMs.
All of these machines were copied from my old Mac Pro, so for testing I decided to create a new VM from scratch.
I used Vista because I had that .iso handy.
At the end of the fresh install, after installing VMware tools and everything, the virutal machine had no sound.
Windows indicated that sound hardware is installed, and the windows volume meter visually shows sound playback (that little sound meter), but there is no sound outputed.
After shutting this new VM off and going to the settings, I noticed it had defaulted to having the sound card turned OFF.
I switched it on, and when I powered on I had the same message and problem as all the other VMs.
I also tried editing the .vmx to show sound.virtualdev = "es1371",but this disabled sound totally.
I'm out of ideas at this point.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!!