Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-05-10 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Fri, 2021-05-07 at 17:37 +1000, Carl Brewer wrote: > On 8/01/2021 10:09 pm, Till Wegmueller wrote: > > Hey Tony > > > > Here in the EU I always get myself a USB Gaming Headset for my > > Audio > > needs. They are Cheap(ish) and you can get yourself a Wireless > > Headset > > that has a dedica

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-05-07 Thread Carl Brewer
On 8/01/2021 10:09 pm, Till Wegmueller wrote: Hey Tony Here in the EU I always get myself a USB Gaming Headset for my Audio needs. They are Cheap(ish) and you can get yourself a Wireless Headset that has a dedicated receiver that needs no special driver, other than Audio. You might also get a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-08 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hey Tony Here in the EU I always get myself a USB Gaming Headset for my Audio needs. They are Cheap(ish) and you can get yourself a Wireless Headset that has a dedicated receiver that needs no special driver, other than Audio. You might also get away by simply using the Mic, Headset on the ho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi Till, Thanks a lot for your reply. Well, it wasn't a kernel driver hogging the device. I could modunload the usbvc driver easily, but when I tried to attach the device in vbox, the kernel loaded the usbvc driver automagically again. But you did actually point me in the right direction, this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-07 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hey Tony That sounds to me like the a kernel driver is attaching to the device and thus Virtualbox cannot do that anymore. There is a blacklisting capability but I have never done that or know how exactly that works, or if it helps in this situation. It should be comparable to bhyve passthr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-07 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi guys, I'm trying to get my webcam to work in a vbox guest (to use zoom), but even though it seems to be present in the VM, cheese, zoom and qv4l2 only shows a blank screen. The video device is there though. On the host I see: messages:Jan 7 15:46:00 emu usba: [ID 691482 kern.warning] WARNI