Did you install the virtualbox extras in the vm? On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/03/2017 08:46 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > What are folks preferences for Virtual Box over VMware? > > I appreciate the recommendations regarding using KVM/qemu, and one day > I'll give it a try. However, I remember I went through a lot of effort > getting Windows 7 working with my USB footpedal. So, to avoid having to > go through that again, I tried one more search and found the answer to > my poor audio problem. > > I did a Google search for "virtualbox poor sound" (without the quotes) > and found a reference to selecting the right audio host driver and > controller in the virtual machine. The host driver was okay, but the > audio controller was Intel HD Audio. On my other machine, the audio > controller was ICH AC97, which is what was recommended on > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041743. I changed the Audio > Controller setting to ICH AC97 and restarted the virtual machine. When > it came up it had no audio device. > > More searching led me to download and install the Realtek driver for > Windows 7. Once that was done and the virtual machine rebooted, the > sound was nice and clear. > > Thanks again for the KVM/qemu recommendations. Some day, I'll give it a > try, but fixing what was broke took much less time than I expect > starting over with a new virtual environment would. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
