Hi Jörg
The picture on test.winehq.org is a disaster: None of the w95, w98, nt4, 2k, 2k3, Vista, 2k8, w7 machines have performed winmm:wave tests! They all have no sound configured. Mostly useless.
A lot of those VMware boxes are mine. They come in two flavors. Some of them (starting with esx-) are ESX VMs, ESX is VMware's data center
product,
which simply doesn't support sound. The others (starting with gvg-) are Server VMs, which do support sound. The reason I didn't configure sound on them is because I'm simply not interested in sound. I'll consider enabling sound, but to be honest I'm a bit put off by your aggressive
tone.
Anyway, the end result is that there will always be ESX VMs that can't run sound tests.
After a bit of mucking around I got sound to work on the Linux host where those VMware Server VMs run, and enabled sound in the VMs where possible. I could not find correct sound drivers for some of the old stuff (NT4 and below), so those still don't have sound, neither do the ESX VMs.
Best regards, Ge.