I have installed Win Svr 2008 R2 on three Dell machines (two Latitude 830's and a new PowerEdge R710); I have not been able to get sound working on the guest operating systems, even though sound works on the Host. I was wondering if this is supported, or if it is a driver issue between my Dell hardware and the virtualized drivers. I have tried VISTA and Windows 7 as the guest operating systems.
On the D830, I was using Win 2008 Svr Standard R1, Virtual PC 2007 with a Vista guest, and sound was working ok. But I need to get the box using Hyper-V so I reinstalled it.
Maybe this is silly, but this is so I can listen to music during development. Well, it is not silly to me - I think it is quality of life :-) Anyone had any luck with Guest OS sound working on Win 2008 R2/Hyper-V? Thanks. BR, Mark
So updated the Dell 830 to the VISTA64 sound card drivers (Sigma), and that seemed to work OK. But the Windows 7 virtual machine does not have a sound device installed, and "scanning" for hardware does not pick it up. I understand that the sound drivers for the Dell D830 won't work in the virtual machine. But if I wanted to add a sound card to the virtual machine, how is this done? Can it even be done ?
So far I have not seen ANY sound from a Hyper-V R2 based Host computer. I am downloading and trying XP pro now. But am I wasting my time ? Does Win Svr 2008 R2 Hyper-V support sound in the virtual machines at all ? So far, I have not seen it work. BR, Mark
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Sound on Virtual Machines
