yup.. in parallels, theres a list of all peripherals attached, and you can sellect to add it to the vm

Are you referring to the built-in iSights or the old, external FireWire iSights?

As far as I know, XP and Vista will detect an external iSight as “1394 Desktop Video Camera”, but no driver exists for Windows. I think most IM clients can use the video, but are not capable of receiving audio from the iSight’s internal microphones without a proper driver.

Is this the case, or does anyone else have conflicting experience of the external iSights on Windows?

P.S - Sorry if this is a bit off topic for the thread.

Ok you CAN use the internal isight IF you select it as the USB device in Parallels. The trick is that you need to extract the Bootcamp iSight driver first, and then install it into your Parallels image.

As far as external iSight - you are currently out of luck. I've been looking for a Windows driver for years -- no one has made one. You will only get video. Parallels doesn't even support firewire devices, so you can't even external isights to work in parallels.

I'm not sure if any of this is different with VMWare...

waah?

I didnt need to extract the driver

My internal isight works just fine.. you just need the parallels software drivers in windows

Parallels isight driver?
 

Really? When I select the Device in the parallels menu, it detects the isight and then asks for a driver. What driver did you use?

Don't you just let it search for one automatically? It then picks up your Bootcamp or Parallels driver?

what he said, make sure you first have the bootcamp drivers installed (off the leopard disk) and second have the parallel divers installed

Exactly. Though I did have to use vidcap32.exe to set the resolution to 320 X 200 for my MacBook pro.

Has anyone tried it via DARWINE or CrossOver?

Even if they did work in DarWINE or Crossover, both would have difficulty interfacing with video.