virtualbox doesn't play pc speaker sounds generated by the guest -> won't fix, contributions welcome

[Gregory Nowak]

When the guest generates sounds via the pc speaker, they aren't played on the host through either the host's pc speaker if one exists, and/or through the host's sound card. I believe that vmware sends pc speaker sounds generated by the guest to the host's pc speaker, and I know that both qemu, as well as virtualpc send pc speaker sounds generated by the guest to the host's sound card. I personally would find it very helpful to hear any pc speaker beeps which the guest generates, and would appreciate it if the inclusion of this feature in virtualbox could please be considered.

[geniver]

I am trying to play alert sounds in a python program, with no success. I discovered that I can not make any sounds using the Linux Terminal program.

I am running CentOS 5.2 as the host system for VirtualBox 2.1.2

I have tried this with the following guest operating systems:

CentOS 5.2 Ubuntu 8.10 OpenSolaris Windows XP cmd.exe

I can make a system beep by typing backspace at the bash prompt using the Terminal program of the host CentOS 5.2 system. Doing the same thing using the Terminal program of the guest CentOS 5.2 system produces nothing.

If I set preference for visual beep, the title bar of the Terminal program flashes. I do get sound when I visit youtube.com via Firefox, or when I play an mp3 using VLC.

[Technologov]

Added myself as CC to this bug.

-Technologov

[MichaelB]

It has been over 7 years and this bug is still outstanding. Are there any plans of fixing this bug?

[Michael Thayer]

I'm afraid that there currently are not as far as I know. We would happily accept a code contribution if it could be integrated without too much work on our side, but otherwise fixing this is just too low priority relative to the other things we have to do and our available engineering time.