Hi Darius.
From VMware Preferences "Compatibility"
Compatible with VMware Fusion 5 or higher
This option uses the newest version of the virtual hardware and should provide
the best performance and newest features. (Hardware version 8)
Compatible with VMware Fusion 4 or higher
This virtual machine is also compatible with VMware Workstation 8 or higher and
VMware ESX 5 or higher. (Hardware version 8)
Compatible with VMware Fusion 2 and 3 or higher
This will disable some features including HD Audio and reduce 3D performance.
This viirtual machine is also compatible with WMware Workstation 6.5 or higher
and VMware ESX 4 or higher. (Hardware version 7)
Audio became available with VMware Fusion 4.0 for Mac OS X guests, I think.
Installing Mac OS X 10.7 again on the Mac Mini (the third time), "System Informations", "Hardware", "Audio" show "Intel High Definition Audio" is available. Audio is available in my guest now.
Sorry I don't know what's going wrong in the past, but every thing works well now.
But I can't get Audio working on an old guest by removeing/adding the Sound Card (see below).
Nice to see,
Lutz
p.s.
All the time I remove and add the Sound Card I got something like this:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.startConnected = "TRUE"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
But for a new guest the Sound Card looks like this:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
I add
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
to my .vmx files and sound became available to the old guests too.