Re: VirtualBOX additions (again)

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:56:09 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:

> One more data point, in case it is of interest; lately (even before
> installing the additions to this vbox guest vm), the audio driver
> started causing problems - it basically freezes the VirtualBox process
> under Windows, the only thing one can do it is kill it and restart the
> vm. This is when using ICH AC97 emulation; on the client side, just
> using mocp or musicd. The sound was also rather harsh, if I can
> describe it so. Switching to Intel HD Audio emulation cures both
> problems for me.

IIRC, AC97 is being actively rewritten, so it's not stable at times
and dot-zero releases are dot-zero releases :)

-uwe