Hello All,
I am running Virtualbox 5.0.20 on Windows 7 (Host). The guest VM is Windows XP. I cannot get the sound working. Enable Audio is checked (ICH AC97).
Any help?
No Sound in Windows XP Guest
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mpack
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Check that it isn't muted inside the guest, and of course check that sounds work on the host.
I use audio in XP guests myself, so it definitely works. It has worked for years.
I use audio in XP guests myself, so it definitely works. It has worked for years.
Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Audio in host works. System > Sound and Audio Devices shows "No Audio Device". Printscreen is attached below.
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Right-click on the computer, Properties, Hardware tab, Device Manager. Do you have any warning/errors in there? Can you try to fix them? Did you happen to enable audio after the installation of the VM?
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Confused. If you have the volume set to zero, why do you expect to hear anything?
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
The audio slider is grayed out. I assume that "No Audio Device" is the important bit. The most obvious explanation is that no audio device has been enabled in the VM recipe.
@caveman: Time to see that VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here. It may save time if you also include the <vmname>.vbox file in the zip.
@caveman: Time to see that VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here. It may save time if you also include the <vmname>.vbox file in the zip.
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Right. Probably misconfigured VM. Of course with the information the OP didn't provide, it's anyone's guess.
Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
So I went to device manager and saw that the sound driver is not installed. Went ahead to search for Realtek AC97 driver in the Internet. Everytime I execute the driver installer, midway through the installation it will just restart the guest VM and the driver is yet to be installed.
Finally gave up and tried using another Windows XP iso and created a brand new VM. Sound works out of the box.
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Finally gave up and tried using another Windows XP iso and created a brand new VM. Sound works out of the box.
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Re: No Sound in Windows XP Guest
Genuine XP has AC'97 driver support out of the box, so I guess that means it wasn't a genuine copy of XP, more likely is was some kind of "tiny xp" or similar. And I assume that means your second "Windows XP iso" isn't genuine either. If you insist on using stolen and cracked software then I'm afraid we can't help you here.
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