Choppy sound in Windows 7 -- solved (for me, anyway)
Posted: 11. Dec 2009, 03:46
Host: Debian Lenny, ALSA sound architecture, P5QL PRO mobo w/ onboard 7.1 sound (Realtek chipset), Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz proc, 4GB RAM, 32-bit
Guest: Windows 7 Ultimate
Like many others here, on other forums and (I'm sure) in the world beyond, I've had choppy audio problems with Win7 on VBox 3.0 from day one. This was frustrating because sound ran perfectly in this exact same guest VM in VMWare. No amount of tweaking could fix the problem.
(If you're curious, I'm doing this because I have LogMeIn Pro installed on the VM and I use that to stream music to my workstation and occasionally pull down files when I need to.)
Just upgraded to VBox 3.1, and not only is the choppiness gone, the sound is AMAZING. I've been playing with all the neat features in the Realtek drivers for about a half-hour and having a blast in general. In fact, my music actually seems to sound better coming out of the VM than it does out of Amarok on my Debian host, but that may be because I'm so happy the problem is gone that I'm being overly optimistic.
So if you haven't, I would strongly urge you Linux host/Windows guest folks with sound problems to upgrade with all haste.
Guest: Windows 7 Ultimate
Like many others here, on other forums and (I'm sure) in the world beyond, I've had choppy audio problems with Win7 on VBox 3.0 from day one. This was frustrating because sound ran perfectly in this exact same guest VM in VMWare. No amount of tweaking could fix the problem.
(If you're curious, I'm doing this because I have LogMeIn Pro installed on the VM and I use that to stream music to my workstation and occasionally pull down files when I need to.)
Just upgraded to VBox 3.1, and not only is the choppiness gone, the sound is AMAZING. I've been playing with all the neat features in the Realtek drivers for about a half-hour and having a blast in general. In fact, my music actually seems to sound better coming out of the VM than it does out of Amarok on my Debian host, but that may be because I'm so happy the problem is gone that I'm being overly optimistic.
So if you haven't, I would strongly urge you Linux host/Windows guest folks with sound problems to upgrade with all haste.