Hi, all.
Has anyone ever figured out how to get sound working in recent versions of VMware Fusion? I'm using Fusion 6 on Mavericks, and the SB16 driver crashes the VM.
I have the rest working fine: display, mouse, and network. I'm working on VMware tools now. It's only the SB16 driver that isn't working.
Thanks.
With the release of Fusion 11.5 for macOS there is now an unsupported SB16 emulation. The details can be found here
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-40539. Yes, it's been a long wait, but I appreciate the developer doing this on his own time.
As far as how well it works on for Openstep 4.2, the results are promising and confusing at the same time.
The SB 16 (8 and 16bit DMA) - 4.01 driver loads, but several sound apps refused to play anything. Even the system beep does not work. Nothing of interest in the VMware or Openstep logs to reveal why.
But then I tried NEXTTIME and the audio from all my videos comes through just fine. My recollection is that NEXTTIME bypasses all or part of the Postscript Display drivers to achieve performance. So perhaps
NEXTIME is driving the audio directly to the (virtual) hardware?I have some other SB16 Drivers I will try when I get some free time.
Hello: May be this driver will work as it is a PCI verse ISA driver
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Drivers/nextstep_3.3/3rd_party/README
This package contain the driver for the SoundBlaster16PCI and other cards with an es1371 chip for NeXTSTep/Openstep. It is based on the sources for the linux driver which is also included for reference (es1371.c).
The driver currently only supports playback and I think recording will never be supported since I have no need for that.
Since this is my first driver I cannot guarantee that it has no effect on other parts of the system but on my system it runs stable.
The driver is programmed to support shared IRQ's but that feature is completely untested although it is enabled in the Default.table.
I try do document the source as good as I can and espacially my changes to the parts of the linux driver I used.
Jens Heise
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Yup. This driver is the list to try.
Hello,
I have updated the driver to fix these crashes.
https://github.com/novi/SoundBlaster16PCI/releasesTested on NS3.3(J) on VMWare Fusion 11.5.3 on Mojave, but not on 4.2 yet. but may works.
If you have any issues, open a ticket on Github.
Quote from: yusukeito on May 20, 2020, 06:17:17 AMHello,
I have updated the driver to fix these crashes.
https://github.com/novi/SoundBlaster16PCI/releases
Tested on NS3.3(J) on VMWare Fusion 11.5.3 on Mojave, but not on 4.2 yet. but may works.
If you have any issues, open a ticket on Github.
Thank you Yusukeito , I uploaded the driver and source here into the nextcomputers.org archives
/Software/Virtualization/VMWare/SoundBlaster16fix_Driver
Hello community.
The original author of the driver, Jens Heise has sent a patch for several improvements last week. Thanks for the patch.
And I released v1.2 here.
https://github.com/novi/SoundBlaster16PCI/releases/tag/1.2Enjoy.
Unfortunately with the latest version of Fusion 11.5.5.
It has weird latency problem. Use Fusion 11.5.3 at this time.
https://github.com/novi/SoundBlaster16PCI/issues/3
The 1.2 driver version works without problem for me, but I'm using Workstation (Pro) 14.1.5 under Linux, not Fusion. I tested my patch for at least one week in daily use before submitting the pull request.
I know version changes of VM often have unexpected results. It was the change from VM 4 to 5 or 5 to 6, which broke the driver in the first place, until you fixed it. Many thanks for that, as I never had the time to go searching for the problem.
Morgon
I'm using OS4.2 Mach with both VMware Fusion 11.5.5 on the Mac and VMware Workstation Player 15.5.6 on Windows 10. Sounds works flawlessly on both platforms using the Vmware article
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-40539. I'm using the SoundBlaster 16 PnP driver v4.02 with DMA 1 + 5 and IRQ 5 at 0x220h port address.