Please fix audio debugging instructions

[slv]

The instructions available here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/AudioDebug to provide useful log files for audio issues debugging are misleading, at least for Linux.

They suggest to set an environment variable in a shell with elevated privileges, then kill this shell and check in another, non-privileged, shell that the variable is set. I'm quite sure that running VirtualBox with VBOX_RELEASE_LOG set will never happen this way.

My suggestion would be to ask people to close VirtualBox, then run from the command line

VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=drv_host_audio.e.l.l2.l3.f+drv_audio.e.l.l2.l3.f+audio_mixer.e.l.l2.l3.f+dev_hda_codec.e.l.l2.l3.f+dev_hda.e.l.l2.l3.f+dev_ac97.e.l.l2.l3.f VirtualBox

then check in the log that "Audio: Verbose logging enabled" is there.

I can't test the provided instructions for Windows.

[Michael Thayer]

Any better now?

[Socratis]

I tested the instructions for OSX (the new ones, I don't know what the old ones were). There is no "Audio: Verbose logging enabled" in the log. There is definitely more information about the audio (about 34 additional lines), it's just that that specific line is missing. Am I missing something?

Host: OSX 10.9.5
VirtualBox: 5.1.9 rev111846 (Qt5.6.2)
Guest: Windows 7 (don't think it matters)

Side note: How do you get a list of all the available Wiki pages unless directed to a specific one?

[Michael Thayer]

I tested and it works on Linux. Our Audio developer is currently not available, so this will have to wait a bit. And sorry, it seems that the trac page index (wiki/TitleIndex) is only available to administrators.