Improve sound quality for a Windows guest

**Stonecold1995** · October 6th, 2012

I'm trying to run Windows 7 in VirtualBox (host is Kubuntu 12.04), but the sound quality is atrocious. Even simple beeps sounds broken up and crackly. Is there any way I can fix this? I've tried adjusting settings on the Windows guest, but nothing is working...

**Habitual** · October 6th, 2012

Guest Extensions/Pack installed?

What Vbox version?

**Stonecold1995** · October 6th, 2012

Oh yes, I forgot. My VirtualBox version is "4.1.12_Ubuntu". And yes, I have the Guest Extensions Pack installed. Here are the settings for VirtualBox, btw.

**Stonecold1995** · October 13th, 2012

bump

**kow777** · October 14th, 2012

What are your PC's specs?

**Stonecold1995** · October 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by kow777

What are your PC's specs?

It's a laptop, but it's a gaming laptop, so it's pretty powerful. It's a MainGear ex-L 15 SuperStock.

CPU: 64-bit Intel Core i7-2760QM @ 2.4 GHz (3.5 GHz Turbo)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 675m
Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 8 GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz

So I doubt it's that my computer is unable to run Windows virtualized. In fact, I've been able to get away with running Kubuntu 12.04, Windows 7, PC-BSD, and more than 5 clones of Tails (a debian-based hardened OS) at once. Then I tried opening Fedora 16 and my computer crashed instantly (I had no swap enabled at the time so maybe that's why).

I also have Intel's VT-x (?) virtualization enabled in the BIOS.