{"id":78,"date":"2010-02-22T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:14:40","slug":"how-to-get-sound-working-on-virtual-pc-2007-with-vista-guest-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"How to get sound working on Virtual PC 2007 with Vista guest OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Microsoft-VPC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79 alignleft\" title=\"Microsoft VPC\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Microsoft-VPC-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Microsoft-VPC-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Microsoft-VPC.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(This applies to hosting Windows 7 as well). Virtual PC 2007 added a new sound system specifically for using Vista as a guest and host OS.\u00a0 But when you install Vista as a guest OS, there is no sound!\u00a0 A search on Google and Live Search didn&#8217;t turn up anything about how to use it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I found that after you install the VM Additions, the sound driver is silently copied into the guest OS&#8217;s &#8220;C:\\Program Files\\Virtual Machine Additions&#8221; folder.\u00a0 All you need to do to get sound working is &#8220;update&#8221; your audio controller driver within your Vista guest OS and tell it you Have Disk&#8230; and point it at that folder and voila!\u00a0 Beautiful sound.\u00a0 (without any restarts either).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This applies to hosting Windows 7 as well). Virtual PC 2007 added a new sound system specifically for using Vista as a guest and host OS.\u00a0 But when you install Vista as a guest OS, there is no sound!\u00a0 A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=78\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}