All it takes is installing VMware Tools on your VM (and making sure audio is selected). I want to mention that audio works fine for me on VMware 12 Pro (12.1.1 build-3770994). Host CPU load is very high during audio/video playback.Īttached you find a log during audio playback. Video was stuttering until I unchecked 2D/3D-acceleration. VBox.log (117.3 KiB) Downloaded 1165 times Both VirtualBox and Ubuntu are capped at 100% volume, though.Ĭould it be the lack of ALSA? Is there any way to make the VM play nice with ALSA? Absolutely no glitches, unless I go over 100% volume. What could be wrong with my VM's audio? Outside the VM, audio plays fine. Even videos on Youtube play properly in the VM, without any missed frames, but audio is continually choppy. My fan doesn't turn on whenever I run the VM, and my computer stays relatively cool. Other than the glitchy audio, the VM itself runs great.
With PulseAudio, it's slightly better-the sound is output at a normal speed, but crackles and glitches out a lot. I tried changing the audio settings to ALSA as the Host Driver, but audio sounds even worse with ALSA enabled in VirtualBox-audio is speed up and glitchy with ALSA. Anyway, the update went smoothly and nicely, but audio quality is subpar. I recently installed Windows 10 as a VM on VirtualBox, and then promptly went ahead with the Anniversary update-I didn't actually test the sound at all on Windows 10 before updating it. Windows 10 Audio Controller: Intel HD Audio Name: 'tmp', Host path: '/tmp' (machine mapping), writableĬapture file: /media/3tb/data/vmachines/vbox/win7/win7.Host: Ubuntu (16.0.4.1 LTS) 64-bit, 32GB RAM, Intel Core i7-2760QM CPU 2.40GHz × 8, Intel HD Graphics 3000 (integrated) and Nvidia Quadro 1000M (discrete) - I only use the HD 3000 the computer itself is the Thinkpad W520, with the Conexant CX20672 Codec which shows up as Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) in Ubuntu (under lpsci) I use the daily ALSA drivers for Xenial (under "Additional Drivers") NIC 1 Settings: MTU: 0, Socket (send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window (send:64, receive: 64)Īudio: enabled (Driver: PulseAudio, Controller: HDA) NIC 1: MAC: 0800278B604C, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none Storage Controller Max Port Count (1): 30 Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0 Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0 Log folder: /media/3tb/data/vmachines/vbox/win7/Logs Snapshot folder: /media/3tb/data/vmachines/vbox/win7/Snapshots