Looking for Windows XP drivers for OS installed via Virtual Machine on ubuntu 10.4

[sedigh mohseni]

hi
my operating system is ubuntu 10.4 and i installed virtual box version 4.0.8 r71778 (i copied this version from its help) i installed well my problem is that i cant find suita
ble network card or audio drive for virtualed windows.

would you please help me how can i set suitable drives for virtual windows because i change some drivers in random but now my audio driver and the other is not installed?

laptop: Dell 1564,
operating system: ubuntu 10.4(64bit),
window xp(2005),
and virtual box version 4.0.8 r71778

the other my question is about a word that is written in help of virtual box "oracle vm". does it mean that oracle is installed in my laptop? i'm not familiar with oracle and i apologize if my question is not good.

in advance , i thanks alot for your help.
be successful

[sicarie]

VMWare is owned by Oracle - that's just a branding logo.

The sound driver should be virtualized. I'm running XP through VirtualBox on Ubuntu as well (on an HP laptop), and sound works fine for me.

What driver do you show as currently loaded? Did you try updating via Windows Update? (Through Internet Explorer - I think it's an option in one of the menus - Tools or options, or something, it's all the way at the bottom. That'll get your XP up to date - depending on how old it is - my XP SP2 has a hard time updating)

[sedigh mohseni]

hi
Do you think, driveres are provided by virtual machine and support for them are depend on version and updates of guest os?

[sicarie]

The drivers are provided by the OS, however the vm utilizes some of the drivers that are loaded.

Did you find out what network card is loaded in the VM?

Also, VirtualBox gets pretty peculiar with its network functionality - I have to switch between NAT'd and Bridged adapters (turn VM on, Devices -> Network Adapters menu) depending if I"m connected via ethernet cable or wireless. Have you tried switching between those and restarting the VM?

[sedigh mohseni]

i sat network device of virtual box to bridge option and my network worked correctly ,but still audio device of my virtualized os dont work , i can't recognize which sound drive i should select on setting vm.

thanks alot for your help.

[sicarie]

Now that the network is configured, have you attempted to run Windows Update?

Or were you able to open the device manager and check what is loaded as the audio device?