VirtualBox sound problem

[mikeymikec]

My wife really wanted to play an older game called "Dr Drago's Madcap Chase", and my most recent attempt to get it working succeeded by using the original version of Win98 (rather than SE apparently). When hosting it on my main PC (Win7 64), the sound works (albeit with a bit of sample clipping), but when I try to get it working on my 'home theatre PC' (WinServer 2008 R1), the sound does not work, and VB posts an error on startup basically saying it can't talk to the sound device.

To work around this I've tried two things: The default hardware config is Intel HDMI through to the TV. I tried plugging the analog audio out (Realtek HD) into the TV, then setting the TV to use PCM audio. I've also tried plugging headphones into the analog audio out and setting the default sound output device to realtek. I've also tried PCM + realtek default audio out. Same result in any case.

I haven't tried setting VB to present the audio as a different device, mainly because I assume availability of drivers would be quite poor (though I'll check Realtek for AC97 Win9x drivers now... are they likely to be VxD to suit Win98 pre SE though?).

 

[mikeymikec]

The problem isn't specific to the virtual machine in question, if I set up a new one it posts the same audio error.

 

[Ketchup]

I never had much luck getting hardware to play nice with VirtualBox. I'll admit it's been a few years since I played with it. VMWare Player has always worked well for me, even on older OS's, and that's the main reason I haven't been back to VirtualBox in quite a while.