If you are setting a Vista Virtual PC image up in Virtual PC 2007 you’ll soon realise that the audio doesn’t work. You’ll do a bit of Googling and find that Virtual PC 2007 has a ’special’ audio set up just for Vista but good luck to you finding information about how you actually get it running. I eventually stumbled on the answers.
It turns out that when you install the Virtual Machine Additions, the sound drivers are copied to “C:\Program Files\Virtual Machine Additions”. They aren’t actually installed, just stuck in there. So, go to Device Manager and ‘update’ the driver, tell it you have the disk and point it to the path above.
Job done…
Thanks! This help with installing the audio driver for Windows Server 2008 RC0.
As you say, job done. Many thanks for posting the advice.
I couldn’t find an Audio item in the Device Manager.
I ended up just restarting Vista and then sound worked fine.
If you restart pc and audio device isn’t listed close it, then goto sound control panel, right click, on menu make sure show disabled devices is selected. Reopen device manager and other devices should show it now, select it and right click to update driver, and then goto the VM Additions as source, and it should update
Thanks, this helped me getting sound in Win7 beta using Virtual PC 07
Hi Everyone,
I have spent a whole day in configuring sound,
at this position,
sound icon is in tray,
Microsoft virtual machine audio device is in device manager.
media player is running, but not able to hear the sound,
I have tried everythig, but now stuked.
tried several times to update.
but find no any positive result.
please help
as a host window xp sp3
as a guest windows 7 with virtual machine 2007
already installed the virtual machine addition update.
Thanks,
Vijay Kumar Gupta
Thank you – problem solved
It works for virtual Windows 7 too, thanks!
I’m using Virtual PC 6.0 with Windows XP Media Center edition as the host OS and Windows 7 RC as the guest OS. I was pulling my hair out trying to get the audio to work. I tried your tip and it worked just like you said it would for Vista.