On Friday 27 July 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007, David Baron wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2007, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Hello all. > > > > > > Does anyone know where I can find drivers for windows nt4 that will > > > work with the soundcard that virtualbox emulates? Also, may I suggest > > > that sound drivers be added to future additions of the guest additions > > > cd, along with drivers for all other emulated hardware that aren't now > > > included, for the sake of completeness, if for no other reason? Thanks. > > > > This is the problem with VirtualBox. > > Qemu emulates specific hardware and drivers can be downloaded if need be. > > Include this in "guest additions"? Yes, but that assumes they are > > installable which is not always the case (Win98, 2nd "CD" needed, etc.) > > The difference between Qemu and VirtualBox is that Qemu emulates some more > legacy hardware devices than VirtualBox does. VirtualBox emulates an AC97 > audio adapter. Even for older Windows versions there should be guest > drivers available somewhere. Though we cannot include these drivers in our > guest additions since they have proprietary licenses. > Windows include drivers for AC97 and this is NOT recognized on their PnP. Attempts to choose what Win98 has on their "driver database" will fail. AC97 comes in various on the MB variations and on soundcards. Which one is being emulated in vbox?
_______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
