Comments on: Windows 7 on the Mac Under VirtualBox

By: Karina

Karina — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:46:55 +0000

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for the mention!

So, well, thanks!

By: mac leopard

mac leopard — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:41:09 +0000

Super information,I have bookmarked this site for future and will keep a eye on your other postings. Thank you

By: David Herring

David Herring — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:36:21 +0000

I also had to download AC97 drivers for sound to work when running Windows 7 on Mac OS 10.6.3 using VirtualBox 3.1.6.

Dowloaded the drivers from the relatek site at:-

http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=23&PFid=23&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

By: Cassie Colabrese

Cassie Colabrese — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:42:21 +0000

do you guys think they will upgrade this product to a better one ?

By: Musthafa

Musthafa — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:08:13 +0000

Thanks a lot Seyerl. Installing AC97 drivers from realtek solved my problem !!

By: Seyerl

Seyerl — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:31:13 +0000

Hi, I had a slightly different experience with this issue that I’d like to share. I also had problems with audio. In the snapshot settings, I enabled the audio and set the host driver to Core Audio and the controller to ICH AC97. This alone did not fix the problem. Then I find this blog entry from mhinkle and performed a Windows Update. The speaker symbol still had the exclamation mark and no audio. I then installed the Guest Additions as recommended by Two Guys Tech, but that didn’t resolve the issue neither, and I doubt the Guest Additions played any part in the end solution. Lastly, I downloaded and installed the AC97 drivers from the Realtek website for Windows7 and my sound was fixed instantly.

In my case, I think I could have managed by setting the snapshot settings and then installing the AC97 drivers in the Guest VM.

BTW, I’m running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 with VirtualBox version 3.0.12 r54655 and a Windows7 Ultimate Edition Guest VM.

By: Rylee

Rylee — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:47:50 +0000

THANK YOU! it took me forever to find the driver! thank you! windows update works! i am currently running it on my acer netbook under virtual box on xp. i could not get sound. i finnally found it thanks to you!

By: mhinkle

mhinkle — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:30 +0000

Hi, I just wanted to let you and your readers know that I have had no problems with sound in my Win7 install on VirtualBox. I think it is in large part due to the thorough and direct instructions from two tech guys (http://twoguystech.com/blog/art/installing-windows-7-beta-suns-virtualbox#comment-878) and they are my new heros! I don’t know about anyone else but following their instructs to the letter I have experienced no issues. One thing they mentioned and I have witnessed is the way Win7 automatically searches for drivers and installs them without asking–its very cool and very scary (I hope the OS is only trusting digitally signed certs, but I need to check out that documentation to be certain how the driver installs are working).
Cheers!

By: Two Guys Tech

Two Guys Tech — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:28:29 +0000

Just wanted to drop in and say thanks for the mention!

So, well, thanks!

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:09:35 +0000

Had been having the ‘no sound’ problem, despite the drivers showing as installed correctly and the speaker symbol showing on the taskbar.

Your screen shot “Audio’ above made me look at my settings again and I switched from ‘Null’ to ‘Core’ (along with the ICH AC97) and on the next reboot I had sound!

Hope yours gets sorted as easily.