No ENS1371 driver for VMWare Fusion audio

[marksteward]

Describe the issue you are experiencing

The recommended deployment for MacOS is to use a VM. The guide currently suggests VirtualBox, but that's significantly less performant than VMWare Fusion, which is now free, and Open VM Tools is already included in the image. VMWare Fusion exposes an ENS1371 PCI sound card, and other emulated devices appear to have a history of lag and crackling.

To support this, could you add the appropriate module to device-support-pci.config:

CONFIG_SND_ENS1371=m

It's included in kernel-arm64-rockchip.config, but everything seems to be included there.

What operating system image do you use?

ova (for Virtual Machines)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

6.6.66-haos

Did the problem occur after upgrading the Operating System?

No

Hardware details

MacBook Air 2015 Intel

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Set up a VM for HA
2. Enable the soundcard
3. On boot, dmesg says "No soundcards found."

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

N/A

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

N/A

System information

No response

Additional information

No response

[marksteward]

Thanks for that!

For the record, the default is es1371, to use hdaudio these days you need to add the following undocumented setting to the .vmx:

sound.virtualdev = "hdaudio"

Which I worked out since raising this ticket, but consensus seems to be that es1371 is better.

[marksteward]

Just to confirm, this works great on 14.2, and puts the microphone in capture mode by default, which the hdaudio doesn't.