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

[Thomas C Gilliard]

On 03/01/2012 11:22 AM, Gary Martin wrote:
> On 1 Mar 2012, at 15:31, Peter Robinson<pbrobinson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi SoaS folks... plus Greg!
>>>
>>> If you do find a way to do this it would be wonderful. But, it will have to
>>> be easy to explain to parents, teachers, and kids. They are our target
>>> audience (right?). I'll forward a copy of this to Greg Dreshler up at UCSB.
>>> He was one of my booth volunteers from SCaLE 10X and is very knowledgable
>>> about how to use Parallels. Maybe he will have some ideas too.
>>>
>>> If you guys can figure this out and show me how, I will write the
>>> documentation to make it easy for our target audience to do.
>> I think USB devices with USB passthrough might be the easiest to do on
>> all various different virt platforms. I believe all of them support
>> USB passthrough and on the SoaS side we shouldn't need anything
>> special in particular as it should just see a new USB device.

Just tested on VirtualBox 4.1.8 for OSX on a  MacBookPro i7 in GNOME 
3.3.5 with cheese
Defined the USB camera for pass though: Apple Inc.Facetime HD Camera 
(Built in) (0516)
I got a green light on camera but no image.

> Yes, when I last tested on my Mac (last late year) the camera device was passed through to the VM, but back then Fedora did not recognise the hardware correctly, the Mac hw camera led would light up when in 'use' but otherwise just a black image. Sorry I haven't tested a more recent build.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> Peter
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