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calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Virtualbox Windows guest, webcam and microphone not available

Hi,

I'm attempting to get my microphone and webcam working in a windows 10 guest. There was nothing on the wiki stating that I needed to do anything specific, except adding my user to vboxusers. After doing that, Windows still can't detect my webcam or my microphone. Can anyone recommend anything else I could try to get virtualbox working? My speakers work just fine, so I'm not sure why the microphone is not available. This is on a dell xps 13 laptop if that's relevant.

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: Virtualbox Windows guest, webcam and microphone not available

I got it working. To get the microphone working, I followed these instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28171379/158703

To get the webcam working, I had to install the oracle vm extensions for virtualbox from the aur. Then I had to enable USB 3 and create a filter to allow the VM access to my webcam device.