Hi Alexandre,
Just wanted your opinion on the following:
VMware Workstation officially only supports MIDI output via the synthesizer device. The problem I'm having with several of my VMware boxes (and from the looks, Francois' boxes have the same issues) is that the midi tests hang (not on all OS's btw!).
There are 2 ways (I can see) to fix this issue:
1. Get rid of (or disable) the sound device on the failing boxes. This means of course far less coverage of tests. 2. There is an option in the Audio control panel to only use the default devices. This doesn't prevent the 'enumeration' from listing the failing device but we could have the tests skip 'non default' devices. The attached patch is a first attempt and does work on my XP box.
I've discussed this issue already with Jörg but as said VMware says it's not supported but there is no way you can tell by looking at what the driver returns (it's a normal Creative driver not intercepted in some way by VMware AFAIK).