>
> Did you install the Virtual Machine Additions in the guest yet?
> Are you running on a laptop host? If so then have a look at the power
> settings in order to adjust them for better performance.
>

>Thanks for the previous help with my newbie questions.....I took the plunge
>and installed VPC2007. I'm running Vista Home Premium as host and XP Pro as
>guest.
>
>I'm having a problem with sound on the guest. The sound is there, but the
>audio sounds like it's breaking up with lots of short drop-outs or starting
>and stopping as described in another post. It sounded like it was a resource
>problem in the other discussion where it took a lot to emulate the sound
>device, hence the poor audio. That may be my problem too....although I have
>a 2GHz dual-core with 3G of RAM (512M allocated to XP). Does anyone have any
>insights or solutions to this problem?
>

> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:01 -0800, Tom Bizon
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the previous help with my newbie questions.....I took the plunge
> >and installed VPC2007. I'm running Vista Home Premium as host and XP Pro as
> >guest.
> >
> >I'm having a problem with sound on the guest. The sound is there, but the
> >audio sounds like it's breaking up with lots of short drop-outs or starting
> >and stopping as described in another post. It sounded like it was a resource
> >problem in the other discussion where it took a lot to emulate the sound
> >device, hence the poor audio. That may be my problem too....although I have
> >a 2GHz dual-core with 3G of RAM (512M allocated to XP). Does anyone have any
> >insights or solutions to this problem?
> >
>
> Did you install the Virtual Machine Additions in the guest yet?
> Are you running on a laptop host? If so then have a look at the power
> settings in order to adjust them for better performance.
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>

> I wasn't able to get it to work by changing power settings. I'm still having
> the audio problems. Is it that the emulation of the sound card is consuming
> more resources than my computer has or is it a potential driver problem?
>
> My immediate workaround was to disable sound in VPC....but now I get the
> annoying DOS beep when it needs to make an "attention" sound.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Tom

>I'm experiencing the same problem. I've allocated 1 GB of Memory to XP,
>which should be plenty (I upped it from 512 MB's with no improvement). The
>sound is just really choppy. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks, :)

> Not really, I've never found a way around it, it's just hard for
> virtualization products to do as it's pretty software intensive.

>It's a shame that sound remains an issue. Sound just doesn't seem to be very
>CPU when running an OS outside of Virtual PC, so I don't know why it would be
>so poor within Virtual PC. I have already upped the CPU for the XP guest to
>1 GB, but when I get home I'll crank it up to the max (Whatever that may be)
>and see. When I run Task Manager it doesn't use much of XP's CPU, and on the
>Host it also is not very demanding of the CPU. Which begs the question "What
>does exactly cause this sound issue?" Is it the Virtual PC's interface
>between the guest OS and the audio card? Virtual PC does have some
>limitations as it relates to its ability to interact with certain things on
>the Host Machine, such as printers and such. Is the Audio Card another one
>of these limitations? It seems like something that should be supported...