Problem of the week 38

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For easy configuration we use VMWare for our lab environments. A few months ago we created a new environment and tested it. Everything was working flawless, except for the sound. The sound was very dim and we could nor increase the volume.

What is wrong here?

 

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What version of VMWare were you using? Workstation?

 

Generic sound card drivers must often be used for virtual environments. Same with video cards.

 

Workstation 4.5

 

And so we did.

 

So what's my prize?

 

Did you get it right? Tinus answer just seemed a little vague to me

 

I agree - I'm not sure whether Michael got it right, or whether in the example they had already loaded the general drivers.....

 

No, we had used generic drivers, but the volume was still low. We always use these drivers and normally there is no problem. Now the volume was low and stayed low.

 

Michael was not right. We always use generic drivers.

 

Must have been the way you were holding your mouth when you installed them.

 

Not even close

 

er... holding your feet, then?

 

No, my mouth is never....

 

have you got enough ram ?

 

2 GB. The funny thing is it had worked before and as far as we could see nothing changed. Obviously something did change.
What?

 

Not the drivers.
not the ram.
was working before.
Did you change any hardware ?

 

Can we do 20 questions? If so, first question is: Is it hardware or software?

 

No, no hardware was changed.

 

You can . It's software related.