inbuilt iSight under Parallels

[LCaller]

Anyone got it to work ? I'm sick and tired of MSN on Mac not having camera so i dropped into XP and still no camera.... WHY WHY WHY GRRRRRR

 

[72930]

1. Get Mercury Messenger or aMSN, for webcam on MSN...

You have to click Devices->USB in the parallels menubar for iSight support...

 

[LCaller]

1. Get Mercury Messenger or aMSN, for webcam on MSN...

You have to click Devices->USB in the parallels menubar for iSight support...

I have it active in Windows and Windows just failed to install new hardware for it can't find a driver. Can someone point me towards one.

 

[Yoda47]

Do you have the latest update to Parallels installed?

 

[LCaller]

Do you have the latest update to Parallels installed?

Yes, and for that reason i thought it came with a driver .

 

[chabig]

I think Parallels uses Apple's Boot Camp driver, which they can't distribute. You need to search the web for a copy.

 

[LCaller]

I think Parallels uses Apple's Boot Camp driver, which they can't distribute. You need to search the web for a copy.

Totally right . In the end here's how i did it.

Go to Utilities - Boot Camp Assistant . Right click to "Show Package Content"

Then in the folders - Content - Resources , there is DiskImage.dmg . Mount this and you will have a file called "Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows.exe" . Copy that to your Parallels shared drive and run it . You'll end up with it uncompressing all the drivers to C:\Program Files\Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP 1.1.2 . In here you will have C:\Program Files\Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP 1.1.2\iSight and you can do the manual driver location in the windows device install.

I'm going to throw up a how to guide somewhere on the web as i got sick and tired searching the web and coming up against a brick wall or being told the only solution was Mercury Messenger ..

Will post the link shortly.

 

[cwedl]

I have it active in Windows and Windows just failed to install new hardware for it can't find a driver. Can someone point me towards one.

can't you somehow get the drivers of the bootcamp cd that you can create for windows xp? that would surely work

 

[LCaller]

can't you somehow get the drivers of the bootcamp cd that you can create for windows xp? that would surely work

thats kind of how i ended up doing it, but i now have stand alone drivers from the install that i'll be making available so people don't have to go through what i did again