VirtualBox and Hardy

Steven Davies-Morris sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Sat Jul 19 19:32:43 UTC 2008


Christian wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2008-07-18 at 11:50 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Christian wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, Many thanks for the info. That's very strange.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2008-07-18 at 07:05 Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 01:48 +0200, Christian wrote:
>>>>> I have just installed the latest version of VirtualBox on
>>>>> my Ubuntu
>>>> hardy system.
>>>>> However, I get no sound. I've set my virtual machine to use
>>>>> Pulseaudio
>>>> and I have specified the sb16 as the soundcard but still no
>>>> sound.
>>>>> Has anyone else experienced the same?
>>>> I have no solution, but at least I can tell you that it works
>>>> for me, without me having to do anything special.
>> Maybe don't use Pulse?  I _think_ I'm using ALSA... -- derek
>> 
>> 
> Well, I think I have found the sound problem. If I change the
> -audiocontroller to ac97 and not sb16 I get audio. Can someone
> please confirm this? Change to the sb16 and see if you get audio. I
> am using Pulseaudio and the latest release of Vbox. Many thanks, 
> Christian

In vBox if I change my soundcard from AC97 to SB16 with Pulseaudio I
get no sound. Put it back to AC97 and I have sound.
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