{"id":112,"date":"2009-07-21T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-07-21T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:12:56","slug":"installing-sound-drivers-for-virtualbox-sound-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/07\/21\/installing-sound-drivers-for-virtualbox-sound-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing sound drivers for VirtualBox sound in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the latest version of Windows 7 and VirtualBox 3.0 available, there is no sound drivers for the emulated sound card bundled, unlike Windows XP. To enable sound in Windows 7 under VirtualBox it is needed to install the drivers for the sound card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtek.com.tw\/downloads\/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&amp;PNid=23&amp;PFid=23&amp;Level=4&amp;Conn=3&amp;DownTypeID=3&amp;GetDown=false\">Realtek&#8217;s website<\/a> and download the first item (<strong>Vista\/Win7 (32\/64 bits) Driver only (ZIP file)<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>Unzip the package into a temporary directory.<\/li>\n<li>Run setup.exe in the temporary directory.<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Next&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>After it displays &#8220;Begin to install\/update AC&#8217;97 drives&#8221;, several popup windows by Windows will appear complaining about the verifier of the driver. Click &#8220;Install this device driver software anyway&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>After a while Setup will, complete. Restart if you want.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Screenshots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" title=\"AC'97 Setup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture1.png\" alt=\"AC'97 Setup\" width=\"418\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114\" title=\"Windows Device Driver Warning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture2.png\" alt=\"Windows Device Driver Warning\" width=\"310\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115\" title=\"Installing AC97 drivers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/capture3.png\" alt=\"Installing AC97 drivers\" width=\"158\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you found this article helpful or useful, please help Compdigitec spread the word. Don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"\/labs\/feed\/\">subscribe to Compdigitec Labs<\/a> for more useful or interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the latest version of Windows 7 and VirtualBox 3.0 available, there is no sound drivers for the emulated sound card bundled, unlike Windows XP. To enable sound in Windows 7 under VirtualBox it is needed to install the drivers for the sound card. Instructions Navigate to Realtek&#8217;s website and download the first item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[531,529,405,528,863,60,442,530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}