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I've got a weird one, I need software that when run will emulate the presence of a SB16 or better sound card in a Windows Server 2003 box that has no physical sound card.
The reason? To trick VMWare into enabling its virtual audio device for a guest OS (which will be redirected to another system which has a sound card).
The only software I've been able to find is payware that may or may not work, and I don't want to go down that path at all. I'd sooner stuff an old SB Live Value in the box, and I really don't want to do that.
Edit:
The reason why I want to go to all this trouble is as follows, I want to setup a second PC that I can do all my surfing/chatting from, allowing me to reboot as needed on my main rig without dropping offline. The main headaches I've found to this grand scheme are as follows:
1) Video: Embedded video (ie, Youtube) doesn't stream so well under RDP, works better under VNC
2) Audio: VNC doesn't have any mechanism for passing audio, RDP does but it's kind of weak compared to directly outputting to speakers.
3) VMWare won't emulate a sound card for the virtual machine if the host doesn't have a soundcard.
1 is solved by using VNC on high-bandwidth mode
2 is solvable (suboptimally) with RDP, or (really really bad, and doesn't work for any but a single target client) a Y connection on my speakers, or (Unknown) find another software pack that does audio redirection to a remote client PC
3 I'm deadwalled on, I'll give it another try when I get home and can use a non-RDP connection to my server to try software packs with.
3 I'm not sure of in a software sense.
The reason? To trick VMWare into enabling its virtual audio device for a guest OS (which will be redirected to another system which has a sound card).
The only software I've been able to find is payware that may or may not work, and I don't want to go down that path at all. I'd sooner stuff an old SB Live Value in the box, and I really don't want to do that.
Edit:
The reason why I want to go to all this trouble is as follows, I want to setup a second PC that I can do all my surfing/chatting from, allowing me to reboot as needed on my main rig without dropping offline. The main headaches I've found to this grand scheme are as follows:
1) Video: Embedded video (ie, Youtube) doesn't stream so well under RDP, works better under VNC
2) Audio: VNC doesn't have any mechanism for passing audio, RDP does but it's kind of weak compared to directly outputting to speakers.
3) VMWare won't emulate a sound card for the virtual machine if the host doesn't have a soundcard.
1 is solved by using VNC on high-bandwidth mode
2 is solvable (suboptimally) with RDP, or (really really bad, and doesn't work for any but a single target client) a Y connection on my speakers, or (Unknown) find another software pack that does audio redirection to a remote client PC
3 I'm deadwalled on, I'll give it another try when I get home and can use a non-RDP connection to my server to try software packs with.
3 I'm not sure of in a software sense.