I looked through some of the other posts on this topic but none offer any suggestions which work in my case.
I have tried some “solutions” found on the web but to no avail. Setting up sound using pulseaudio in Manjaro under the VM doesn’t work. Neither does adding a “sound card” in the vm manager.
This actually is the second time I have had sound problems in a vm with Arch-based distros. But I have a second VM running EndeavourOS (which is also Arch-based) but sound works there with no problems.
There is nothing special about this machine - sound and video are motherboard based Intel and it appears this is a stock Manjaro XFCE installation.
Hope to find some ideas and help here.
Thanks