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Driver downloaded from Windows Update.
http://www.picvalley.net/u/2104/1427323 ... vdtg1V.JPG

The Settings are :
http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/2439 ... 7B9GXA.JPG

AFAIK the intel HD audio was not intended to be used with Windows XP and the proper audio driver for XP is ICH AC97.
Plus codecs are not drivers.

With all due respect, that really really sucks. Please make the HD Audio compatible with Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. AC97 is the 1997 standard.

i have exactly the same problem with the HD Audio...
up to virtualBox 4.0.10 every thing was fine with VirtualBox and the guest addition package and HD Audio of the guest.
but now, i was updating to 4.1.0 and now the guest is not having a proper HD Audio device anymore...

my host:
amd phenom II x4
windows 7 x64 ultimate sp1 + all fixes
virtualbox 4.1.0 (updated from 4.0.10)

my guest:
windows 7 x64 ultimate sp1 + all fixes
virtualbox 4.1 guest addition package (updated from 4.0.10)

in 4.0.10 i was able to use HD Audio device
in 4.1.0 HD Ausio is broken

xpclient wrote:With all due respect, that really really sucks. Please make the HD Audio compatible with Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. AC97 is the 1997 standard.

Indeed it is. When do you think Win2k and XP were coded? And when was HD audio released?

To use a modern audio card, use a modern OS.

XP is perfectly capable of running drivers written since it's introduction, just as it is perfectly capable of running apps written since it's introduction. If the vendor says that it's an XP compatible driver then it should work just fine.

Personally however I would not let Windows Update touch my device drivers. WU is good for updating the OS, but they have a habit of misidentifying hardware, or treating old Microsoft drivers as later than the latest hardware mfrs drivers.

BillG wrote:Indeed it is. When do you think Win2k and XP were coded? And when was HD audio released?

To use a modern audio card, use a modern OS.

Please don't give people advice if you are misinformed. XP's release date has nothing to do with this issue. HD Audio BUS drivers based on the Universal Audio Architecture have been released by Microsoft for Windows 2000, XP and later OSes. So XP/2000 only need a codec driver and HD Audio will work in the VM as it does flawlessly on real machines. Don't advise me to use a modern OS to be able to virtualize HD Audio as Windows 2000 and above perfectly support it if driver for the right codec/audio chip is present.

You don't earn any brownie points around here for attacking the people who answer your calls for help: regardless of what you think of the advice.

If you don't like the advice then ignore it. If you think a correction is important for the greater good then do it politely: we all get things wrong sometimes, you (and I) included.

Telling me to use a modern OS in a virtualization forum isn't very polite either. That's why I snapped. Sorry. But the very reason VirtualBox exists is so we can virtualize older (and newer) OSes. There's nothing wrong with requesting and expecting HD Audio to work with XP because it's a supported scenario by Microsoft. In this case, the HD Audio chip being virtualized doesn't have XP drivers. I kindly request VirtualBox developers to virtualize an HD Audio chip which has drivers for Windows 2000, XP, Linux and other OSes.

I think providing a virtualized device does not only depend on the virtualbox developers.
Without permission and enough information from the manufacturer of the real device it may be too difficulty or prohibited (patent rights etc.) to implement such a device like Realtek HD Audio.
Most virtual hardware today is Intel hardware. I only now few other vendors in network (AMD, Realtek, 3com), VGA (Cirrus Logic, S3) and Audio (Creative SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster compatible?).

Virtualbox allows bootup drivers to install SATA disk access to vmbox windows xp.
That came out after xp was released, SATA that is.
HD audio drivers were available in same fashion.
AC97 driver in vmbox allows 44100 khz sampling I want 96000; double 48000 or at least 48000
I would record audio in the xp box but perhaps I could see how the SATA virtual disk handles it.
Being a synthesizer fan I used windows 98 and windows 2000/xp for my midi instruments I have apps unavailable to vista and above.
recording high res audio on a vmbox may lag and be choppy.
I wasted an xp pro retail license on vmbox by the looks my bad.

Why are you waking a thread from 2011, i.e. seven years old? Did you even bother to check the user manual? Intel HD audio was added to VirtualBox a very long time ago. Whether you can find drivers for your selected OS is not a VirtualBox problem.

Locking this.