[Request]XP Intel hd audio driver for virtualbox

[wyf180]

I found all hardware drivers that vmware 15 and virtualbox 6.0 emulated for windowsxp except Intel hd audio for virtualbox.I tried lots of intel audio drivers and winxp itself hd audio driver,but all of them can't work.So could anybody have this driver to share it for me?

[pangoomis]

It seems VirtualBox authors are not keen on addressing the issue, and just tell users to use AC'97 on Windows XP:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=38886
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16609

Can you provide the device ID for the HD Audio that VirtualBox emulates?

[RainyShadow]

After reading this, i tried it myself and sure enough none of the few drivers i tested managed to work.

Then i installed Win7x86 for comparison, and even there the various branded drivers refused to play nice. The only working driver was the generic HD Audio driver, which i had to select manually.

Maybe you can try porting that driver from Win7 to XP using this:

 

12 hours ago, MrMateczko said:

Can you provide the device ID for the HD Audio that VirtualBox emulates?

It is HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7680&SUBSYS_83847680&REV_1034 , but i believe that's fake. They just took some random existing ID and slapped it in VBox.

The moderators over at the VBox forums talk about HD busses, codecs, and whatnot, but fail to explain properly why a (supposedly) properly emulated device won't work. And to put an end, they just say "we don't want to waste time on that old OS, use AC97".

 

[FranceBB]

Not to wake an old thread, but has there been any progress on this? One of my XP installations is currently being virtualized on Virtualbox and indeed I'm stuck with AC97 at 44100Hz 16bit PCM stereo 2.0 routed all the way through to Pipewire/Wireplumber on Linux, upmixed to 5.1, upsampled to 48000Hz PCM 24bit and then delivered to my sound card and on to my subwoofer. That... kinda sucks.