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I installed Android on Virtualbox, I'm using Android x86 downloaded from http://www.android-x86.org/download I chose version 2.3 the eeepc version (android-x86-2.3-RC1-eeepc.iso).

The problem is the sound is not working, I tried all 3 choices in Virtualbox settings. My current settings:

Host driver: Windows DirectSound
Controller: ICH AC97

The choices I tried for the audio controller setting:

Intel HD Audio
ICH AC97
SoundBlaster 16

I'm currently running Windows 7 and my audio driver is the default windows driver.

I searched and found people with the same issue, but I couldn't understand anything as I'm not an advanced Linux user some solutions talk about the ALSA driver but I couldn't find how to install it and use it.

Also could it be from the installation .iso file I chose ? my computer is Acer Travelmate 2480.

Update While checking the Android x86 website I found that we should use SoundBlaster 16 instead of ICH AC97.

I also tried the alsa_ctl init command inside the terminal (ALT + F1), and I got this:

Unkown hardware: "Dummy" ""Dummy Mixer" "" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

I checked the version it's 1.0.23

Pierre
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Check for your sound cards detected using

alsa_aplay -l

and select the first card

alsa_ctl init 1

Have you checked here of using this

alsa_amixer set PCM 100 unmute

or do as described here

Read some crap to understand about Sound Architecture or Try using VMware Player or VMware Workstation its a better alternative, here you can find some good tutorials

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Girish Nair
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  • vmplayer is never better than virtualbox :) as i believe – Rachit Mishra Aug 29 '13 at 07:01
  • Please read these http://marsbox.com/blog/reviews/vmware-vs-virtualbox/ http://forums.anandtech.com/archive/index.php/t-2137402.html http://osworker.blogspot.in/2012/01/different-between-vmware-and-virtual.html http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/review-vmware-workstation-9-vs-virtualbox-42-203277. Apart from these what you believe is the best for you ;) – Girish Nair Aug 29 '13 at 08:58
  • http://xmodulo.com/2013/07/vmware-player-vs-virtualbox-performance-comparison.html and this http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/review-vmware-workstation-9-vs-virtualbox-42-203277, then you have FREE ;) – Rachit Mishra Aug 29 '13 at 09:30
  • Thank you for your answer, I tried a lot fixes/solutions but it didn't work, I'm gonna switch to VMware. – Pierre Aug 29 '13 at 16:27
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Go to setting of the android virtual machine and select “Audio” and in audio setting select “SoundBlaster 16” as audio controller. The Android-x86 website says that only SoundBlaster 16 works as a VirtualBox soundcard for Android.

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