Say I have two main machines these days, a Dell 660 with Win. 8 core i5, and Lenovo W530, also with Win. 8, and a core i7. All VM's work flawlessly on the Lenovo,
but on the Dell, I have seen issues with the same VM not working on it, as far as getting sound goes. The constant thread is GNOME based DE, which I think includes Unity.
KDE does not have this problem, but alas, I am not a KDE guy. But I think I solved it for Ubuntu 13.04; I copied the VM from the Lenovo to the Dell, then I deleted sound from the VM parameters, then added it back in after the VM was running. Now it seems to work. I am not sure if I just got lucky, or it is a permanent fix, but thought I would pass it along.
I have seen this bug before with other Dell's I have owned in the past, using a Suse Linux with GNOME. I currently use the latest VMWare, version 9.03.
I have tested it with the latest LTS, 12.04 on the Dell, and it works as well now with sound.
but on the Dell, I have seen issues with the same VM not working on it, as far as getting sound goes. The constant thread is GNOME based DE, which I think includes Unity.
KDE does not have this problem, but alas, I am not a KDE guy. But I think I solved it for Ubuntu 13.04; I copied the VM from the Lenovo to the Dell, then I deleted sound from the VM parameters, then added it back in after the VM was running. Now it seems to work. I am not sure if I just got lucky, or it is a permanent fix, but thought I would pass it along.
I have seen this bug before with other Dell's I have owned in the past, using a Suse Linux with GNOME. I currently use the latest VMWare, version 9.03.
I have tested it with the latest LTS, 12.04 on the Dell, and it works as well now with sound.