Comment out this line from your VMX file: sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
If you don't want to do that, change the audio format settings in Windows to "24 bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality)" or higher, which greatly improves (※ but does not completely fix) the issue.
See this for more info: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2012007
| Intro: If you have tried to install Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive on a system that only has USB 3.0 ports, you might have found that you couldn’t get past the Language Select screen of the installer as your keyboard and mouse didn’t work. | |
| The keyboard and mouse worked great in the BIOS, but as soon as the Windows 7 installation media loaded and presented that familiar Language Select screen, I had no cursor or keyboard. | |
| 1. Get the right USB 3.0 Drivers | |
| For your installer to work with your computer, make sure you grab the proper USB 3.0 drivers. Look up your Motherboard’s drivers, see which ones you need and download them. | |
| 2. Extract the Drivers | |
| - Once you download the drivers, we will need to make a folder for the drivers we want to slipstream into our installation media. For the purpose of this example lets just call it “USB3_Fix.” | |
| - Inside that folder create two separate folders: “USB3” and “mount”. | |
| - Now extract all the drivers into that USB3 folder. |