If you do not then that is what should be looked at. Many people have found AC97 to work well with XP guests. The reason I looked at HD was because AC97 wasn't working properly.

I will not answer further though unless I think that there is something genuinely new to say.

I will nonetheless assume that the deleted comment was meant in a reasonable way and try to answer it. Some people would call it useless and unwanted noise, but I do not support nor endorse those opinions personally. I'm contributing by creating tickets for issues. It gives you the default choices when you make your initial setup, but after that, you're free to test things at your heart's desire. VirtualBox does not modify its options based on the template selected. Why does VirtualBox present the HD device in the settings if HD is unsupported? VirtualBox has simply chosen not to support HD in XP which IMHO is a poor decision given XP's staying power and popularity.Ī 'poor choice' to not support the Intel HDA cards? Something that is not supported natively by Windows XP itself? When on the other hand AC97 is right out of the box? Can you imagine the number of support queries/complaints/tickets that this decision would bring? Also, did you check the VendorID, ProductID and Subsystem values of the driver that failed to install correctly? There are a lot of different combinations out there and you may not have picked the correct one. It would be better if you were to take into consideration that Windows XP does not support natively the Intel HDA family of cards. This means the virtualization for the HD audio device is faulty. The driver installation of the RealTek Intel HD Audio driver fails in Windows XP guest.

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