Hey All,
I am trying to use a webcam in a Win 7 Virtualbox VM. The VM runs perfectly fine but as soon as I turn on the webcam, CPU usage bumped from 13% to 250% . I have tried both integrated and an external Logitech web cameras.
These are the software and hardware versions
- 13" MacBook Pro 2018 (2.7 GHz i7 16 GB RAM)
- OSX 10.14 (18A391)
- Virtual Box Version 5.2.20 r125813 (Qt5.6.3)
- Windows 7 SP1 (8 GB RAM, 2 vCPU)
Any ideas to how can I reduce CPU usage when connected to Webcam?
Thanks,
Vikas
MacBook Pro - High CPU when webcam is connected
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Re: MacBook Pro - High CPU when webcam is connected
Not with that amount of information. For example, there's a key piece missing; the name/version of the software that you're testing the camera in your guest.vikas027 wrote:Any ideas to how can I reduce CPU usage when connected to Webcam?
BTW, it's not ultra-surprising, video processing does take a lot of CPU...
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Re: MacBook Pro - High CPU when webcam is connected
Hello Socratis,
Thanks for your response. Please find the attached Virtual Box config and log files.
Thanks for your response. Please find the attached Virtual Box config and log files.
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Re: MacBook Pro - High CPU when webcam is connected
As does simulated I/O.socratis wrote: BTW, it's not ultra-surprising, video processing does take a lot of CPU...