Also I'm fairly new to Hyper-v (switched from Virtual Box and VMWare, I can use VMWare again but totally disappointed with Virtual Box - the one caused 2 times of BSOD error on my host). It's not really important currently but I think it may be in future. I hope someone here has experienced this issue to help me solve it. I've tried googling for its driver but not found anything. I've also seen some screen shot showing info about 1 video adapter called Microsoft Hyper-v Video but I'm not sure about the guest OS as well as how to make that available in my XP guest. I've tried googling around and found out about RemoteFX and Integration services but they seem to be used only in a Windows Server host. Technically I need to know about the hardware info but it is not even listed for me to see any piece of info to search for the drivers. It looks like drivers are missing but I don't know what to download.

You can see there is one entry listed involving sound in the pic but in fact the sound device is not working, I opened the Sounds and Audio Devices in Control Panel and here is what it shows: However after installing XP for the guest machine, I don't see any VGA or sound driver, so the performance in guest machine is a little poor and no sound can be played, here is the screen shot of the Device manager: You will now be able to make changes to the 'Sounds and Audio Devices' control panel.I have a Windows 10 host with 1 XP virtual machine using Hyper-v.Click the 'Start' button to enable the 'Windows Audio' service.

Follow steps 1-6 to open the 'Windows Audio' service properties.

On the General Tab, change the 'Startup Type:' drop-down menu to 'Manual'.

If it is disabled, right click on 'Windows Audio' service and choose 'Properties'.

Check the 'Status' column to see if it is disabled.

Open the 'Services' Control Panel by double-clicking on it.

Open the 'Administrative Tools' Control Panel by (depends on your Windows settings):ĭouble-click the 'Administrative Tools' Control Panel.Ĭlick 'Performance and Maintenance' and then 'Administrative Tools'.

Open the Windows XP control panel by (depends on your Windows settings):Ĭlicking on 'Start > Settings > Control Panel'.

Please follow these steps to enable the 'Windows Audio' service: This service is used to control all sound input and output from your computer. This is caused by the 'Windows Audio' service being disabled. When trying to change the Sound Playback and Sound Recording devices on the 'Audio' tab of the Windows XP 'Sounds and Audio Devices' control panel, the options are grayed out. Options are grayed out in the 'Sounds and Audio Devices' control panel on Windows XP.

How to enable sound on windows xp