VMWare Failed to Open Sound Device
After adding a sound device to VMWare I got a “Failed to Open Sound Device, Busy” error. To fix the problem, I patched together instructions from several comments at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=331175. Below are my new instructions.
sudo su
apt-get install alsa-oss
chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.*
mv /usr/bin/vmware /usr/bin/vmware.orig
Next, we modify the vmware script. This part didn't work for me, but I completed it anyway.
echo '#!/bin/bash' > /usr/bin/vmware
echo 'LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/bin/vmware.orig “$@”' » /usr/bin/vmware
chmod +x /usr/bin/vmware
Next, we move the vmware-vmx file and replace it with a script. This is the part that worked for me.
cd /usr/lib/vmware/bin
mv vmware-vmx vmware-vmx.real
echo '#!/bin/bash' > vmware-vmx
echo 'LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.real “$@”' » vmware-vmx
chmod +x vmware-vmx
exit