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Windows 9x sound drivers for VMware Fusion

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These drivers can be used to get sound working in Windows 95, 98 and ME (although ME is untested) in VMware Fusion.

By default, Windows 9x versions don't get sound because it's no longer officially supported. These drivers have been tested on VMware Fusion 8.0 - if you get them working on later versions, please leave a comment.

The following drivers are included:

  • Creative ENSONIQ Audio PCI driver (SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe) - Windows 98/ME
  • Sound Blaster PCI 128 driver (SBPCI128Setupus_w9x.exe) - Windows 95
You should have the VMware Tools installed before installing the driver.

For Windows 95, before installing the drivers, you must shut down your VM and edit its main vmx (configuration) file. Remove all pciBridgeN.present, pciBridgeN.virtualDev, and pciBridgeN.functions entries, where N is 0 through 7 (as many as there are). Then add pciBridgeN.present = "false" to the bottom of the file, seven times, with N being 0 through 7 (pciBridge0, pciBridge1, etc).

This allows you to install the driver successfully; otherwise your system would crash due to an IRQ conflict. Cancel any automated "new hardware found" dialogs until you have run the driver installer and restarted the system.

These instructions were originally written by Tom Howson on his blog, so all credit goes to him: https://www.howson.me/vmware-sound-fix-for-windows-95-98-me/ - this also contains more detailed instructions.

For Windows 98, you need to edit your vmx file and add sound.virtualDev = "es1371" to the bottom of the file. Then run the driver installer.

This was found out by VMware forum user poentaEosei: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/240842

More links:
http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2010/02/27/sound-in-windows-98-on-vmware/ - claims you need DirectX 9, but I have not experienced any problems without it.

Edit, 2023-06-01: to the reviewer, these files are specifically for VMware Fusion 8.0, which is exclusively a Mac product. I don't know what version that corresponds to for Windows. Don't blame me for your BSOD just because you did not read the instructions.
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