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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM, 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?
>
> Any help, links, suggestions, etc. would be much appreciated.

I've never used VirtualBox but one of the easiest ways to get it
working might be "USB Passthrough". Basically it allows you to push
any particular USB device through to the guest OS. I think (but I
don't have any Apple HW to verify) the camera is USB based and if you
get a USB headset for the audio it might be the easiest way to do it.

Peter