vbox VirtualBox Detects No Sound On Guest Systems

Edgar9090 · Dec 3, 2020

Hi there, so here's an issue I have with VirtualBox on FreeBSD, and I don't hear any sound playing on the guest systems at all. I need some suggestions to solve this issue.

facedebouc · Dec 3, 2020

I had to build emulators/virtualbox-ose with 'pulseaudio=on' option to get sound working within guest OS.

Edgar9090 · Dec 3, 2020

All I did was to do this command

Code:

pkg install virtualbox-ose

and a few tweaks to make VirtualBox work, except I never got the sound to work on the guest systems, and have no clue how to do it.

twllnbrck · Dec 5, 2020

As facedebouc outlined you need to build emulators/virtualbox-ose with PULSEAUDIO=on. This means you must compile virtualbox from ports and can't use pkg(8).

Edgar9090 · Dec 11, 2020

I tried to build the VirtualBox package, then I ended up with an output saying an error message.

Cannot create /var/db/ports/emulators_virtualbox-ose, check permissions
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose
$ cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/ && make install clean
===> Switching to root credentials to create /var/db/ports/emulators_virtualbox-ose

facedebouc · Dec 11, 2020

You need to be root to do that.

Edgar9090 · Dec 12, 2020

I logged in as root this time, and tried to build VirtualBox, then I got another output of an error message.

78 warnings generated.
kmk: *** Exiting with status 2
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose
*** Error cdoe 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose

facedebouc · Dec 12, 2020

I build my packages from quarterly ports branch with ports-mgmt/poudriere because it's done in a clean environment with all dependencies needed.
I am using quarterly branch because it's the one used for FreeBSD packages and supposedly able to build without errors.
You can find more information in the FreeBSD Handbook.