Interestingly, if I enable multiple streams in the B&O Play Audio Control app (I have an HP laptop), and then select HD Audio 2nd output in the virtual machine settings (my headphones are connected via an analog jack), the sound works:
https://youtu.be/524rGPIRyzY
But since you can't sit in headphones for a long time, I would like to know why this happened? Can the B&O Play Audio Control update help? Where can I download it?

HEY!!! Where are you?!!!!

Now here's what I did:
1) I removed the drivers for the Realtek sound card via the device manager,
2) I cleaned the registry with ccleaner,
3) I rebooted the laptop,
4) then I downloaded and installed the native drivers for sound for my laptop from the HP website,
5) then I installed Windows 7 on the vmware workstation player and... THE SOUND WORKED (though not the first time, and Windows is a bit slow). There is still no sound on Windows 98 and XP.
Just in case, I also disabled Kaspersky. I did all this on version 17.6.4.

Why are you all silent? Okay, I launched Windows 7 again and... the sound disappeared again. Only there it says:

Error in creating sound system.
Playback may not work.

what to do?

Sorry for the off-topic, as I already created a similar topic with you, but there was complete silence in response. Therefore, I am addressing the topic for Windows.
Recently, the sound stopped working in all virtual machines installed on VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.4. On the host with Windows 10 and in VirtualBox, the sound works fine.
When I try to turn on the sound card in the virtual machine with Windows 98 and XP, I get the following:

Error toggling removable device: The default sound device cannot be opened:
A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system.
Virtual device sound will start disconnected.

And in the case of a virtual machine on Windows 7, it tells me:

Error in creating sound system.
Playback may not work.

Tried different versions of VMWare and Realtek drivers, but to no avail.
How to fix it?

Hi,

For the errors you are seeing in Windows 7, that feels more like an issue between the VMWare application and the host OS/sound card in your laptop. You could try configuring the VMWARE application to use a specific host audio device rather than letting it autodetect (maybe it is intermittently misdetecting), if you have not already tried that. Alternatively, you could try connecting a USB audio device and choosing that in the VMWARE soundcard configuration options. You could also try USB device passthrough of a USB audio device [1] (as long as the device is compatible with UAC 1.0, it should work even with Windows 98, but will require installing drivers in the VM [2], Windows XP and higher already include those).

As for Windows 98 and XP audio support, unless you use USB passthrough, the "standard" way to get audio would be to install Sound Blaster AudioPCI driver in the VM [3], but there are (were ?) other options [4] .

Whatever is causing issues with your Windows7 VM will likely also cause issues with other OSes, so getting that working reliably is probably the first priority.

I hope at least some of this helps.

Best of luck to you!

[1]
Re: Not so crazy idea : using a Raspberry Pi 4 with jackd , Zita A2J bridge and jack_mixer to make a software S/PDIF mix

[2]
Re: need temporary sound

[3]
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-ci … nd-support.html

[4]
How to get audio working right in a VMware Win98 virtual machine?

darry wrote on Today, 12:05:

You could try configuring the VMWARE application to use a specific host audio device rather than letting it autodetect (maybe it is intermittently misdetecting)

Yes, I tried that too, but it didn't help either.

darry wrote on Today, 12:05:

[3]
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-ci … nd-support.html

What kind of driver did Broadcom mean?

For Workstation 8.x and later virtual machines, the High-Definition Audio (HD Audio) device is presented by default for both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7 guest operating systems and their server counterparts. Windows provides a driver for HD Audio that is not part of VMware Tools.