sound output in vmware-server doesn't work

There is a bug in the fix :) I referred to.

    LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-real $@

should be replaced by :
    LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx-real "$@"

You will ls need to do 'sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/libaoss.so*' to make the preload bit give vmware-vmx an ALS-wrapped OSS and a /dev/dsp which can be shared by apps (including multiple VMs).

Extending on my previous:

While this, works, sound is always skipping on my 3.6GHz Xeon with 3 gigs of RAM where as not making this change the OSS sound from VMware works flawlessly.

Yes, I know, OSS doesn't do terribly well on mixing multiple apps to use the sound hardware (or mixing of any sort), but unless you absolutely *must* have sound in multiple VMs (remember, each running VM is a separate running app!) I would not recommend making this change to get ALSA-wrapped OSS for VMware.

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

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Please can we re-open this bug report. Sound in vmware server still does not work when using PulseAudio. In fact after a recent update, I've found the only way to get sound to work is to kill pulseaudio before starting a virtual machine:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7861663#post7861663