[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio for Network Streaming without Virtual Soundcard Hardware ?

[Patrick Rynhart]

Is it possible to use Pulseaudio for Network Streaming without Virtual 
Soundcard Hardware ?

I've got Debian installed as a VM on ESXi 3 and I'm wanting to Stream 
audio from this as a Server to an ESD sink.  The problem is that this 
hypervisor doesn't support audio hardware.  In particular:

# cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

Is it possible to emulate a soundcard (to use as a source) ?  If so, how 
do I go about doing this ?