So if VirtualBox doesn't support ALSA, then VirtualBox doesn't support ALSA, and that is the end of the story. I've seen Windows applications that wouldn't run at all, but all those that ever ran had sound. Notably absent from the screenshot are the Windows applications that run on Wine.
Spoiler: far from it.įWIW, this screenshot here displays most of (not all) applications I have that work fine with ALSA in conjunction with JACK. Run a quick Google search on that and see if I am the only one. It is the first thing I remove whenever I install Linux. There is a third option, but then Windows can't even identify it or find drivers for it.Ģ) PulseAudio is anathema in my computer. Neither SoundBlaster16 or ICH AC97 works in VirtualBox. So I launched my VMWare instance of the same WinXP (same installation CD) and saw that it uses SoundBlaster16 so I decided to try that choice in VirtualBox. 1) I began with ICH AC97 and there was no sound.
