Question: Does VPC provide Windows' Device Driver Library?

[texanpenguin]

I am the not-so-proud owner of an Intel CS110 webcam, and have come to the unfortunate realisation that it's never going to work in iChatAV.

What I want to know, though, is whether or not, if I choose to invest in VPC (possibly waiting until v7, in June), will I be able to use a Mac incompatible device which I KNOW works fine in Windows XP and Me? Will I be able to use the cam in MSN 6?


I ask, because, at present, I use my PC only for webcamming and for openCanvas. I'd like to be able to do away with it altogether. I have limited space, so I'm not a big fan of using VNC or RDS or some such thing to use the PC remotely from the Mac.


One other question, does the Internet Sharing option in the Sharing SysPref Pane share MSN (for PC) correctly? My brother will murder me (and pay out on my PowerBook significantly) if he can't use MSN once I relegate the old Duron to storage. Proxies don't like MSN for some reason; I've only ever succeeded in sharing it, HTTP and IRC SOCKS through Windows ICS.

 

[Zammy-Sam]

I had an aiptek usb webcam which didn't work with yahoo or ichatav on my mac. On VPC 6 and WinXP I was able to use it with any chat tool that I found (yahoo, eyeball, netmeeting) on windows. Be sure you are not using a firewire webcam. You cannot share the firewire port to VPC (at least for the =<6.1 versions). Just the usb port..
And all messengers I tested worked fabulous. Didn't test msn, but I am quite positive it will work just fine.
However, speed might be a concern. Since my chat-friends all used 56k modems, I don't know whether the slow video was due to VPC or the connection of the other ppl.

 

[fryke]

Should work just fine, as it's a 'real' copy of Windows running in VPC and the USB ports - to the VPC - look like 'natural' USB ports.