Description of problem. Audio input works great on the host, but does not come through on the Guest machine.
Host: Ubuntu 16.04, up to date on patches with VirtualBox 6.0.16 r135674 (Qt5.6.1)
Guest: Windows 10 Home verion 1809, latest version of guest additions.
- VRDP is not turned on.
- Enable audio checked
- Host Audio Driver: Pulse audio (Also tried ALSA with same results)
- Audio Controller: Intel HD Audio
Both the headphones and mic are plugged in to the front ports on the PC, and both work fully on the host.
Any other info I can provide that might help?
Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
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- Guest OSses: Mostly XP
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
Please post a VM log file. With the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip, and attach the zip here.
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
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Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
Well, as far as I can tell the VM seems to be doing all of the right things, except perhaps for one thing :
Is your microphone connected to "Line In" or "Mic In"? In fact ISTR it has to be "Line In".00:00:51.536633 Mixer: Setting recording source of sink '[Recording] Line In' to 'Line In'
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
Darn! I thought maybe we had it there! I was plugged in to "Mic in" but when I moved to "Line in" I still had the same results. On the host, I could see audio input (now on Line In) but when i started the guest, still no input.Is your microphone connected to "Line In" or "Mic In"? In fact ISTR it has to be "Line In".
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
Let me ask a different question.
Does anyone have a working mic on a windows 10 guest with a Linux host, preferable Ubuntu? I have found lots of people trying to get one to work in my searches, and nobody who has said they have.
Does anyone have a working mic on a windows 10 guest with a Linux host, preferable Ubuntu? I have found lots of people trying to get one to work in my searches, and nobody who has said they have.
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
BumpDoes anyone have a working mic with any input at all on a windows 10 guest with a Linux host, preferably Ubuntu? I have found lots of people trying to get one to work in my searches, and nobody who has said they have.
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Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
I am having a similar problem... I am attempting to install video conferencing software on my Windows guest (Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4 host), and the audio is working fine. However the microphone is not working at all, and I have attempted to change this from both the settings inside the virtual windows and from the settings of the VirtualBox audio (however the latter does not give me the option to change it). Is there anyway I can get the microphone working?
Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
Hi,
of the low chance that it might work for you as well under ubuntu: I had a similar issue and fixed it with this post.
forums linuxmint com viewtopic php t=314760
In short:
Get default device name:
pactl list sources short | cut -f2 -d$'\t'
Insert in /etc/pulse/default.pa the right default device:
set-default-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
The problem is that pulseaudio always selects "Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" as my default source which is actually not a source but a monitor of the output for some reason.
Additionally, I had to use pavucontrol (apt-get install pavucontrol) and change in the tab Recording for the application virtualbox the device to "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" and not the monitor. I had to do this only once, then it seems like the new default got accepted For some reason the sound manager of KDE doesn't give me that option to switch the sources. So in my case this was a host issue and not related to virtualbox itself.
Best regards
of the low chance that it might work for you as well under ubuntu: I had a similar issue and fixed it with this post.
forums linuxmint com viewtopic php t=314760
In short:
Get default device name:
pactl list sources short | cut -f2 -d$'\t'
Insert in /etc/pulse/default.pa the right default device:
set-default-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
The problem is that pulseaudio always selects "Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" as my default source which is actually not a source but a monitor of the output for some reason.
Additionally, I had to use pavucontrol (apt-get install pavucontrol) and change in the tab Recording for the application virtualbox the device to "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" and not the monitor. I had to do this only once, then it seems like the new default got accepted For some reason the sound manager of KDE doesn't give me that option to switch the sources. So in my case this was a host issue and not related to virtualbox itself.
Best regards
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Re: Can't get microphone to work in Windows 10 Guest
I had the same problem in a Windows 10 Pro Host with a Windows 10 ENT 2021 Guest.
I had sound and camera easily but no microphone.
I read some forum posts and answers with the same problem and different hosts and guests.
At the end it's all trial and error. For me, the solution was the following:
On settings of your VM go to Audio and enable it, then you will have three options:
Host Audio Driver: I changed from default to Windows Audio Session. For Linux hosts there might be another option.
Audio Controller: My host audio controller is Intel, so I left it as it was by default.
Extended features: Enable audio Output and Enable Audio Input. For me audio input was not enabled by default, so I enabled it.
And just like that, my laptop built in microphone started working on the VM.
RP
I had sound and camera easily but no microphone.
I read some forum posts and answers with the same problem and different hosts and guests.
At the end it's all trial and error. For me, the solution was the following:
On settings of your VM go to Audio and enable it, then you will have three options:
Host Audio Driver: I changed from default to Windows Audio Session. For Linux hosts there might be another option.
Audio Controller: My host audio controller is Intel, so I left it as it was by default.
Extended features: Enable audio Output and Enable Audio Input. For me audio input was not enabled by default, so I enabled it.
And just like that, my laptop built in microphone started working on the VM.
RP
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