pc peripheral on virtual pc

Depends. What kind of webcam is it? USB? FireWire? Does it adhere to any video standards? You may not even need VirtualPC. Tell us more about it, and also, what version of OS X are you running?

btw, Welcome to the forum. :D Hope we can be of some assistance.
 
Hi strausser and welcome to the forum.
If your pc web cam has windows drivers it will run fine on VirtualPC (this is at least the case for version 6) and ms windows. However, don't expect a smooth video playback if you don't have a fast mac. I was using my usb web cam on VPC 6 and WinXP to run eyeball (chat tool). It worked fine on my tibook, but the video wasn't smooth at all, which is not related to the chat tool but the VPC performance on my mac.
 
I had an Intel webcam that did NOT like running under VPC. It was recognised, and was there, but the hideous slowness of VPC made its real use prohibitive. If you're going to be running XP in the VPC, forget about it.

There are two collections of Mac drivers for Windows webcams (if they have open drivers, or their chipset is open, unlike my Intel one was), but I don't remember their names off-hand. Shouldn't take much searching in Google to find them.


I recommend using them in OS X and giving up on the VPC idea unless it's ESSENTIAL.
 
The Logitech QuickCam Messenger doesn't run under VPC...doesn't even show up.
 
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