Re: VirtualBox unnecessarily enables USB web camera
Posted: 23. Feb 2014, 09:29
I fixed this by disabling audio settings on my VM
This is an old post but still:
It's not the webcam itself that gets activated by running VMs in virtualbox. It is the microphone sound device.
To test this navigate to you Windows "Recording Devices" and disable Desktop Microphone (this is the default name which can be changed) - Studio Microsoft LifeCam.
The blue LED light will no longer light up when you start your virtualbox VMs.
BTW: I have added the above comment in the bug report.