How can I get my microphone to work in a virtualbox windows xp guest? [closed]

Solution 1:

Do this: Go left click on sound indicator on Ubuntu and chose Sound Preferences In the Input tab on conector chose your Mic (for me work Microphone 2) Then go to System > Administration > User and Groups Click on Manage Groups, scoll down on vboxusers select hem with 1 left click an then click on Properties and check your user name box and click OK Open VirtualBox, turn on your XP Guest, right click on sound icon (in your XP Guest), chose Open Volume Control. In the windows that apear, go to Options and click on Properties Scroll down and check Microphone box. and then click OK

Or look to this Screencast: http://screenr.com/qIG

For my works fine but because i use screenr.com that blow my demonstration :D

Solution 2:

Make sure that /etc/group/vboxusers includes your user name. Run this in terminal and look for the vboxusers entry

$ grep vboxusers /etc/group
vboxusers:x:111:alice,bill

If your user name isn't in there then add it:

sudo gpasswd -a bill vboxusers

Replace bill with your username.