Uable to install the sound driver in VMware Workstation 16

[jimkoutso2008]

Checklist

• I have searched the issue tracker and was unable to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing.
• (If the issue occurs AFTER or DURING Windows 9x's hardware detection phase) I have tried to install with Skip legacy non-PnP hardware detection phase to [OFF] and the issue still occurs.
• (If the issue occurs AFTER or DURING Windows 9x's hardware detection phase) I have tried to install with the integrated driver library set to [OFF] and the issue still occurs.
• I understand that support is provided voluntarily for free, and that the author is not Microsoft and can/will probably not fix bugs in the operating system code itself. I also understand that it is impossible to support every single hardware combination out there.

What happened?

When i try to install the sound driver, it bugchecks.

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Linux dmesg output

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Target Motherboard, CPU and RAM

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Target GPU and Sound card(s)

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Target Storage Devices

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Boot method

ISO image

Reference image

Windows 98 SE Stock

Additional context

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[andrew-hoffman]

You need to use the WDM driver for the Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 which I believe is the SBPCI_WebDrvs_5_12_01.exe file here https://asavage.dyndns.org/ftp/Drivers/Creative/Win/Ensoniq/

[andrew-hoffman]

Note that this latest WDM driver works on VMWare's ES1371 implementation but won't work on a real ES1371 card (but will work for the real and emulated ES1373). See here for details: https://messaroundery.net/2023/09/19/ensoniq-es1371-driver-bug