FM Radio Reception Issue on VMWare

Hello all, I am unsure if this is an issue with my flowgraph or something specific to my VMWare machine. I am running Windows 10 along with a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 20.04 and GNU Radio 3.8.2.0 (Python 3.8.5). I am using the Pluto SDR.

On my Windows machine, I have GNU Radio 3.17.13.4

I created similar flow graphs on both platforms and only encounter playback (choppy) issues when running on my VM Machine.

My Linux flowgraph is a little nicer with QT GUI's and shown below:

My Windows machine doesn't have any GUI's, but the same flow control.

See below:

Why am I getting a choppy audio output on my VM Machine?

Btw, I ran "aplay -l" to determine the Linux Audio output would be "plughw:0,1", but even leaving this blank I still get choppy audio.

Any ideas?

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Thanks,
James G Hayek

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