Note: It's necessary to check that the guest sound card drivers are installed and set up properly. For example, if the driver is from Realtek, then it would be 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio).' And for the stereo mix, this would be 'Default Playback Device.' This set up is necessary to get the recording to work with stereo mix enabled.Īfter all of the above steps, while specifying the host sound card in the VM settings, speakers either based on the real headset connected or the physical sound card driver can be selected. Select the playback device for the microphone to be based on the installed physical sound card driver. The same applies to the microphone as well. It's important to select 'Listen to this device' for 'stereo mix' under the 'Listen' tab of its properties. If the default host sound card is used, there will be no sound issues and hence no need of enabling the stereo mix. Once the stereo mix option is available, it needs to be enabled for the scenarios where we specify the host sound card for the VM in its sound card settings explicitly. If it's not seen, install the specific sound card driver for the underlying physical sound card based on its manufacturer. The stereo mix option is seen under 'Recording' tab of sound settings. Assuming a Windows host: As the Vmware knowledge base states, you need to enable stereo mix:Įnabling 'Stereo Mix' on Windows host fixes the problem.

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