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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #6816, comment 42

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1		I ran into a problem with choppy sound with ~~Windows XP Pro SP3 guests~~ and the ICH AC97 audio controller. It happened in VirtualBox versions 4.2.16 and 4.3 on hosts running Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 (Linux kernel 3.2.0-55-generic, PulseAudio). Switching the guest audio controller to SB16 made the audio less choppy but did not eliminate the problem completely. What resolved the sound issues for me was the solution from http://superuser.com/a/271736. '''This resolved all sound issues with a Windows XP guest on every host computer/OS combination I tried.''' The instructions are reproduced below:
	1	I ran into a problem with choppy sound with a Windows XP Pro SP3 guest and the ICH AC97 audio controller. It happened in VirtualBox versions 4.2.16 and 4.3 on hosts running Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 (Linux kernel 3.2.0-55-generic, PulseAudio). Switching the guest audio controller to SB16 made the audio less choppy but did not eliminate the problem completely. What resolved the sound issues for me was the solution from http://superuser.com/a/271736. '''This resolved all sound issues with a Windows XP guest on every host computer/OS combination I tried.''' The instructions are reproduced below:
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3	3	[Do the following inside the guest Windows XP installation:]