From Arnout Engelen
[edit] Sound input
Sound input (recording, capture) did not work: i only got silence.
In the log I noticed:
Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
Google revealed this page explaining how to fix this:
export VBOX_ALSA_ADC_DEV="hw:0,0"
VBoxManage startvm "myvm"