And if I need sound from one of the VMs then I have to live with the mic being on all the time?
--------- Brian On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:07 AM Christopher Fisk < christopher.f...@thefisks.org> wrote: > Virtualbox will enable the microphone on your machine if any of the VMs you > have created have audio enabled. To prevent it from occurring you need to > disable all audio on all VMs on your virtualbox setup. Just checking the > boxes doesn't seem to work. > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:53 AM Brian Weeden <brian.wee...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm using Virtualbox to run a couple of VMs for various things and one > very > > annoying problem is that it won't let me turn off my microphone. The > minute > > I launch VirtualBox it forces my microphone on and I if I hit the mute > > button it comes right back on again. > > > > I've tried disabling the "Audio input" checkbox on the VM I'm using but > > when I close VirtualBox it defaults to enabled again. And even when it's > > disabled in the VM, simply having the VM running forces the mic to be > > always on, even if the VM is locked and in the background. > > > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > > > > --------- > > Brian > > >
