VirtualBox Not Recognizing OBS Studio Driver and Virtual Camera Not Appearing in USB Device List

[agent-anonymus]

The issue is that VirtualBox is not recognizing the OBS Studio drivers on Kali Linux 2024.2. I have already added the user to the group and installed the Guest Additions, but it still does not recognize the camera in VirtualBox. Can someone help?

The issue is that VirtualBox is not recognizing the OBS Studio drivers on Kali Linux 2024.2. I have already added the user to the group and installed the Guest Additions, but it still does not recognize the camera in VirtualBox. Can someone help?

 

[AaronD]

You're using OBS on a Windows guest in a VM on a Linux host??? Why not use the Linux version of OBS natively?

OBS really doesn't do well in virtual machines. It needs access to the hardware, which is almost never emulated well or passed through.

If your next step is to use a container, like flatpak, snap, or similar, don't do that either. Again, OBS needs access to things, and containers restrict that access on purpose for security. You can open them up, piecemeal, to make it work, but by the time you do that, you've negated the purpose of the container and kept a lot of its downsides.

Always run OBS natively. Not in a container, and not in a VM. If that raises alarms for you about security/privacy...that's just the nature of media production. Segregate the entire physical machine if you're that paranoid, but keep OBS native on the host OS.

 

[agent-anonymus]

Thank you, but I found out how to solve it by following these steps:

Install the VirtualBox Extension Pack:



sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack

Install the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO and the Extension Pack:


sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso virtualbox-ext-pack

Add your user to the vboxusers group:



sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $(whoami)

List the available webcams in VirtualBox:


VBoxManage list webcams