Posts Tagged ‘Virtualbox 3.0’

Webcam didn’t work with Virtualbox 3.0

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Posted 06 Jul 2009 — by Arun
Category Linux

You might have read my earlier post about Virtualbox 3.0. I thought the feature I was waiting for was fixed in Virtualbox 3.0. It was the webcam support. I thought the following changelog was to fix that issue:
USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams.

I installed a fresh copy of Virtualbox 3.0 in Ubuntu 9.04 and installed Windows Vista as guest OS. I added the webcam to USB devices in the settings. Vista installed the driver for the webcam successfully, but no video when I tried to use it in Skype and Windows Live Messenger. Did it work for anyone?

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Virtualbox 3.0 released

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Posted 01 Jul 2009 — by Arun
Category Linux

Sun has released Virtualbox 3.0 yesterday. Virtualbox 3.0 brings one of the fixes I have been waiting for. It fixed the USB webcam problem. I haven’t tried it to see if it’s working. I would give that a try tonight. Here are some of the major fixes in Virtualbox 3.0, mostly related to Linux.

  • Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
  • Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31
  • fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot
  • GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode
  • GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
  • GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
  • 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
  • support Windows 7 RDP client
  • Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
  • VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access
  • VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
  • Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
  • Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
  • Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions
  • Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host
  • X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines
  • X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
  • Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  • Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
  • Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
  • USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams.
  • USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles

For more information on fixes, refer to changelog.

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