Windows XP guest in Ubuntu VirtualBox OSE VM does not install driver to use host's HP laptop webcam.
- by Guillermo Torres
I recently created a virtual windows xp with Virtual Box OSE.
The sound and video seem to be working just fine. However, it does not recognize the webcam which I use to video chat with yahoo messenger.
I use Windows to have video chats with my daughters who live in another country. Since I did not want to go back to windows, I decided to try installing windows in a virtual machine.
But when I tried using it yesterday, everything worked perfectly except for the webcam. I was not able to make the webcam work.
I tried to download the drivers for it, but since my laptop is HP Pavilion g4-1287la, Core i3, none of the drivers I tried worked. I got the same error every time I tried to install them, something like: This driver cannot be installed in this machine