Virtualbox microphone not working (ubuntu as guest)
By John Thompson
I'm hosting Ubuntu 16.04.4 using a windows host machine. I can't manage to make the microphone work. It is not an internal microphone, I connect it with a jack. The microphone works properly on windows.
Does anybody know how to solve this?
Thank you!
2 Answers
Make sure to have the correct Audio Hardware set in the options of Virtualbox. Then check the "Audioinput" to be activated (, as the "Audiooutput" probably already is).
Then start the virtual machine and check if the Audioinput shows up as activated in the Audio menu. If so, check Ubuntu to have found the mic.
Finally check the settings of the recording software as well for any settings reffering to the mic and further, not muting it.
9Which VirtualBox version are you using? I had issues with audio input on latest stable 5.2.8 (Ubuntu 16.04 guest, Windows 10 host), reverting back to 5.2.6 made it work fine again (I didn't even have to revert the GA).
Found a ticket on the VirtualBox bug tracker as well:
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