It seemed reasonable that I could simply convert the physical IDE drive from the dead machine into a virtual disk (VDI), plug it into VirtualBox on another computer and be able to boot from it. This is our choice, not our mistake.I had an older PC that died, but I still wanted to be able to access the data and programs. With a different driver it might work in XP too. Which indeed it is, but not for XP guests, see above. If an HD option is shown reasonable people would interpret that as meaning it's supported. Neither I nor anyone else is expecting 'perfect emulation', but we do reasonably expect that your software does what it explicitly indicates in the GUI. We could have hidden it but chose and choose not to. Choosing XP automatically selects AC97, which works for many (I suspect most) people but does not hide HD audio which works for many people for other guest types.

If HD would not have been shown as an option in the settings I would have concluded it's not available and I wouldn't have filed this ticket.Īs Socratis pointed out, the choice of guest type simply decides which settings are chosen initially. If you do not then that is what should be looked at. Many people have found AC97 to work well with XP guests. The reason I looked at HD was because AC97 wasn't working properly. I will not answer further though unless I think that there is something genuinely new to say. I will nonetheless assume that the deleted comment was meant in a reasonable way and try to answer it. Some people would call it useless and unwanted noise, but I do not support nor endorse those opinions personally. I'm contributing by creating tickets for issues. It gives you the default choices when you make your initial setup, but after that, you're free to test things at your heart's desire. VirtualBox does not modify its options based on the template selected. Why does VirtualBox present the HD device in the settings if HD is unsupported? VirtualBox has simply chosen not to support HD in XP which IMHO is a poor decision given XP's staying power and popularity.Ī 'poor choice' to not support the Intel HDA cards? Something that is not supported natively by Windows XP itself? When on the other hand AC97 is right out of the box? Can you imagine the number of support queries/complaints/tickets that this decision would bring? Also, did you check the VendorID, ProductID and Subsystem values of the driver that failed to install correctly? There are a lot of different combinations out there and you may not have picked the correct one. It would be better if you were to take into consideration that Windows XP does not support natively the Intel HDA family of cards. This means the virtualization for the HD audio device is faulty. The driver installation of the RealTek Intel HD Audio driver fails in Windows XP guest.

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