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I have VirtualBox 6.1.10 with Extension Addon/Pack in Windows 8.1 U1 host on a Dell Inspiron 7347 laptop. My guest OS is Debian 10.4 using the full CD image file. And the Microphone is not picking up any sound on the guest. I'm using ICH AC97 controller and Windows DirectSound driver. I have also tried Intel HD audio and Windows DirectSound, but that does not work either. Using arecord command produces at best a 44 bytes file that has nothing in it. So, aplay command cannot play any sound. I have no clue what to try next.

Thanks a lot

Well I found out what the issue was but will not share how I fixed it here as no one even replied to this thread at all.

klerg wrote:Well I found out what the issue was but will not share how I fixed it here as no one even replied to this thread at all.

Klerg, that is not the attitude to have on this forum.

As a user of free Virtualbox, just like all the rest of us, me included, you have zero (0) entitlement to any support for Virtualbox. Support starts at $1220 on the Oracle Store. Once you have that support you have direct contact with the developers and don't need to ask for support here.

And you only waited one day before you made the comment above.

All of us, posters, volunteers and mods, are unpaid volunteers who sacrifice our own time to learn Virtualbox and want to help others. Oracle employees are in red and are extremely few and far between.

Posters on this forum must wait for someone who knows how to help to come and help. I saw your post from the beginning and had no idea how to fix it. Did you want me to post "I don't know how to fix this"? Would you have felt happy at some kind of response, or irritated at seeing someone waste your time by logging on the form just to be told the poster didn't know what to do? (Based on your post above, I believe the latter might have been your response.)

Care to modify your statement above?