[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Question #81563]: Why doesn't Record work with Strawberry VM?

[Caroline Meeks]

Hmm, I wonder if it works with VMWare.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Caroline,
> >
> > On 3 Sep 2009, at 02:40, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> >
> >> Other Mac users...are you having this problem to? Does anyone know
> >> the root cause?
> >>
> >> The GPA is very excited to use the built in cameras with their
> >> macbooks.  I'm pretty sure this worked on my iMac a few months
> >> ago.   I remember someone fixed the video quality for it.
> >
> > I've had no luck on my MacBookPro, it does recognise the camera and
> > activate it, but just produces a black image. Haven't tested with a
> > very recent SoaS, so I should add that to the list of things to test.
>
> I think that you might be talking about two different environments
> here.   The GPA teachers are apparently using VirtualBox which
> provides an emulated PC hardware environment for many different
> hardware/OS platforms.   I'm guessing that Gary is talking about
> booting SoaS directly on Apple Intel based  hardware.   I use
> VirtualBox under Linux and there is no camera support in the emulated
> environment.  There is support for accessing USB devices from within
> guest machines.
>
> However, I found the following thread on their support forum:
>
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18695
>
> which seems to indicate that the VB developers are thinking about
> doing something about fixing their USB code to support USB based
> cameras, but there was nothing there as of June of this year.
>
> Bill Bogstad
>



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