Re: [PLUG] Resolved: Virtual Box or VMware?

[Nat Taylor]

Did you install the virtualbox extras in the vm?

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Dick Steffens  wrote:

> On 11/03/2017 08:46 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > What are folks preferences for Virtual Box over VMware?
>
> I appreciate the recommendations regarding using KVM/qemu, and one day
> I'll give it a try. However, I remember I went through a lot of effort
> getting Windows 7 working with my USB footpedal. So, to avoid having to
> go through that again, I tried one more search and found the answer to
> my poor audio problem.
>
> I did a Google search for "virtualbox poor sound" (without the quotes)
> and found a reference to selecting the right audio host driver and
> controller in the virtual machine. The host driver was okay, but the
> audio controller was Intel HD Audio. On my other machine, the audio
> controller was ICH AC97, which is what was recommended on
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041743. I changed the Audio
> Controller setting to ICH AC97 and restarted the virtual machine. When
> it came up it had no audio device.
>
> More searching led me to download and install the Realtek driver for
> Windows 7. Once that was done and the virtual machine rebooted, the
> sound was nice and clear.
>
> Thanks again for the KVM/qemu recommendations. Some day, I'll give it a
> try, but fixing what was broke took much less time than I expect
> starting over with a new virtual environment would.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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[PLUG] Resolved: Virtual Box or VMware?

[Dick Steffens]

On 11/03/2017 08:46 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> What are folks preferences for Virtual Box over VMware?

I appreciate the recommendations regarding using KVM/qemu, and one day 
I'll give it a try. However, I remember I went through a lot of effort 
getting Windows 7 working with my USB footpedal. So, to avoid having to 
go through that again, I tried one more search and found the answer to 
my poor audio problem.

I did a Google search for "virtualbox poor sound" (without the quotes) 
and found a reference to selecting the right audio host driver and 
controller in the virtual machine. The host driver was okay, but the 
audio controller was Intel HD Audio. On my other machine, the audio 
controller was ICH AC97, which is what was recommended on 
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041743. I changed the Audio 
Controller setting to ICH AC97 and restarted the virtual machine. When 
it came up it had no audio device.

More searching led me to download and install the Realtek driver for 
Windows 7. Once that was done and the virtual machine rebooted, the 
sound was nice and clear.

Thanks again for the KVM/qemu recommendations. Some day, I'll give it a 
try, but fixing what was broke took much less time than I expect 
starting over with a new virtual environment would.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens

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