Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI 128 driver link for VMWare guests - Vista and Windows Server 2008

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Thursday, February 7. 2008

Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI 128 driver link for VMWare guests - Vista and Windows Server 2008

If you are running VMWare Workstation/Server and want working audio for your Windows Server 2008 and Vista virtual machines, you should use the drivers located here.

Unfortunately, they aren't the easiest to locate because they are no longer on Windows Update, and they seem to be well hidden on Creative's site.

Who knows how long Creative Labs will keep these online, so I would grab them and archive them as soon as possible, because they do work well for Vista and Server 2008 VMWare instances.

in Microsoft, Virtualization, Windows OS at 00:12 | Comments (8)

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Hello. I'm new to VMware and 64 bits OSs. I'm running XP 32 on the host and Vista SP1 64 on the guest. I'm trying to install the sound driver, but Vista insists in not installing the sound driver and giving me a blank error box.

Any suggestion would be apreciated.

Thank you very much.

#1 Vasco Marques Ramos on 2008-02-12 14:34 (Reply)

Ahhh I forgot to add - this is for 32-bit guest OS only. I am curious if there are working 64-bit drivers out there for the AudioPCI chipset. It won't work. The drivers need to be 64-bit is the OS is 64-bit.

#1.1 Aaron Tiensivu (Homepage) on 2008-02-12 15:41 (Reply)

That's what I thought... Perhaps VMware would change something in their software in order to allow 64 bit OS have sound. I can only wait.

Thank you for your time!

#1.1.1 Vasco Marques Ramos on 2008-02-12 17:26 (Reply)

Hi,

a 64-Bit audio driver is included with the VMware tools (I don't know if it also works with Vista X64 or W2K8 X64). In the VMware Server/Workstation menu, go to VM-->Install VMware Tools. This mounts a virtual CDROM into the CDROM drive within your Guest OS. Then - within your Guest OS and from within device manager - browse to the CDROM drive, open \program files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\audio\64bit and dry to load this driver.

#1.2 John Ranger on 2008-03-31 10:06 (Reply)

This driver package doesn't appear to work. I can't get Windows 2008 to accept the driver on my VM instance. Any thoughts? It never installed after running the setup package, and when I try to manually force it to update the driver to the one installed in the C:\program files\creative folder, it acts like it's about to, but then fails with a file not found error.

#2 Mike on 2008-02-27 18:22 (Reply)

This caused a bluescreen running VMWare Workstation 6.0... don't waste your time.

#3 Anonymous on 2008-04-01 10:04 (Reply)

Recently a working driver has become available via Windows Update and via Windows built-in functionality to search for a device driver on the web. So just use that and you'll get working audio.

The driver linked to above does indeed bluescreen occassionally, and so does the other SB PCI128 driver available for download at Creative (SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe).

#4 WinTakeAll on 2008-04-15 19:13 (Reply)

When I searched Windows Update for drivers one was found that works!
I'm was trying to install Vista SP1 x32 Enterprise.
Thanks WinTakeAll.

#4.1 Ghent Gunn on 2008-10-01 16:10 (Reply)

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