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#1 2015-09-12 14:12:23

Dedal
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Registered: 2015-04-18
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[Solved] No sound in Arch guest under virtualbox 5

From time to time I make fresh arch installations under virtualbox to test new things before implement them on my arch host.

As usually I followed the standard procedure to install standard packages, guest modules, gnome etc., nothing fancy but for some reason I cant get sound working. It always used to work out of the box.

In the logs I can only see:

pulseaudio[919]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA was wake up, to save the new data to the device, but there was nothing to save.
pulseaudio[919]: alsa-sink.c: This is probably a bug in the ALSA driver "snd_intel8x0". Please report this problem to the ALSA developers 
pulseaudio[919]: alsa-sink.c: Awekened by setting POLLOUT - but at the same time calling snd_pcm_avail () returned zero, or another values < min_avail.

I didn't make any changes to virtualbox sound settings so by default it's pulseaudio. I made the installation twice and same issue, any clues?

Last edited by Dedal (2015-09-18 17:21:04)

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#2 2015-09-12 21:04:02

Dedal
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Registered: 2015-04-18
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Arch guest under virtualbox 5

Ok I *think* the problem is with latest virtualbox 5.0.2-1, the same image exported to vmware works fine (the sound).

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#3 2015-09-18 17:20:22

Dedal
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Arch guest under virtualbox 5

Ok solved, in VM setting you need to change audio controller to Intel HD Audio and switch back. It seems that sound in not enabled when creating a vm under VB5.

Last edited by Dedal (2015-09-19 15:42:43)

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