Hi Sven G,
thank you, the following step helped:
... before using this driver, one must create a new sound device in the VM's settings, and then edit the .vmx, changing the line:
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
... into:
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
... and sound will then work, albeit certainly not with a very high quality.
I was not aware of this.
In fact, in another discussion thread:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/240010
it was not mentioned.
Additionally, when all this is done, it is necessary to go to the Sound preference pane in the Guest VM's "System Preferences" (OS X Server) and check that the Sound Output is correctly set to "Line Out".
Now the audio output is working!
But the graphic performance still sucks Image may be NSFW.
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