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I have a VM of Ubuntu running on VMWare. Everything works, wireless, and all, except for the sound. I have a Realtek High Definition Audio card, which came onboard this laptop.

Any ideas for drivers or solutions?

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Short summary for : VMware guests normally do not use the host's Realtek PCI device directly — the hypervisor presents a virtual sound card to the guest. That means the guest needs a working virtual device and a functional in-guest audio stack (ALSA/PulseAudio), not the host Realtek driver. 's point about passthrough is relevant (different devices are exposed in different ways), and 's reminder about guest integration is useful for ensuring the VM and guest negotiate devices correctly.

Practical checks to run inside the Ubuntu VM: confirm the VM has a connected Sound Card in VMware settings, then run aplay -l to see playback devices and lsmod | grep snd to verify ALSA modules. If a card appears but there is no sound, run alsamixer to unmute channels and check PulseAudio with pactl list short sinks (or pulseaudio --check). If no card is listed, re-add/enable the virtual sound adapter in the VM and make sure guest integration tools are present so device detection works. PCI passthrough of the laptop Realtek card is not the usual path on desktop VMware products.

Further reading: Ubuntu sound troubleshooting, the ALSA project documentation, and VMware knowledge base articles on virtual sound devices and guest tools. See Ubuntu SoundTroubleshooting, ALSA Project, and VMware Knowledge Base.

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wireless in VMWare?

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you need to install the VmWare additions for ubuntu

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