![]() ![]() You can use this webcam on a macOS-based VM (while this webcam is not supported on macOS and there are no macOS drivers for this webcam) thanks to the Host webcam pass-through feature. Imagine that you are using a webcam on a Windows-based host machine (you have all official Windows drivers for the webcam). The advantage is that you can use a webcam which is not supported by the guest operating system of your VM. With this feature you can connect your host webcam to a guest machine. If you open VM settings ( Machine > Settings > USB) and try to enable USB 3.0 support without having VirtualBox Extension Pack installed, you will get the error message – Invalid settings detected. As a result, you can use a physical USB device in a guest operating system (OS). USB devices such as network adapters, flash drives, hard disks, web cams etc., that are inserted into physical USB ports of a host machine can be attached to a virtual machine running on VirtualBox. The Extension pack adds the following functionality: VirtualBox Extension Pack is a binary package intended to extend the functionality of VirtualBox. ![]() If you have not installed VirtualBox Extension Pack yet, it is time to install it in order to unlock advanced VirtualBox features. ![]() After updating VirtualBox, it is recommended to update VirtualBox Extension Pack on a host machine and VirtualBox Guest Additions on guest machines (VMs). The previous blog post of our VirtualBox series covered VirtualBox update. ![]()
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