[SoaS] Record with camera and microphone input on VirtualBox / VMWare

[Dave Bauer]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <
christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was talking to Mark (in CC) yesterday and he has been working with SoaS
> in VirtualBox and Parallels and VMware, trying to get all the features of
> the Record Activity working in conjunction with the host computer's
> microphone and camera inputs. He wants to be able to use SoaS on a Mac to
> record screencasts of Activities such as FotoToon and Memorize being used
> in combination with Record (both audio and camera)
>
> I now spent some time trying to get this to work on VirtualBox but didn't
> find a solution.
>
> Is there some reason why this might not work at all or are we simply
> missing something here?
>
> You need the VirtualBox Guest Additions or equivalant compiled inside the
Guest OS before this has any chance of working.

If you are inside the VM click the Devices menu and install Guest
Additions. This adds a new device that you can mount as a disk. From there
the Guest Additions need to be compiled. there is a script for that. I am
not sure if you are allowed to distribute the compiled Guest Additions with
a preconfigured VM image.

VMWare has a similar feature, I am not sure about Parallels.

Dave


> Any help, links, suggestions, etc. would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
>
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>
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