Pass in Microphone and Camera

[DUOLabs333]

Would it be possible for UTM to have an option to pass in MacOS's built-in camera and microphone?

[conath]

Thank you for your question. It is already possible to use the microphone in your VMs. This is supported when the VM uses an Emulated Audio Card that starts with "Intel", and the prompt to enable microphone access shows up once a VM requests to use it.

Camera pass-through is not (yet) supported. (Duplicate of #432)
Please search previous issues before opening a new one.

If the mic is not working in your VM despite the audio device set to AC97 or Intel HD Audio Controller, please create a new issue with the necessary debug info. (see Issue template)

Feel free to join the UTM Community Discord server if you have further questions.

[DUOLabs333]

Is this specific to UTM's version of qemu, or is this able to be used by base qemu?

[conath]

UTM uses the SPICE framework to communicate to the VM, and the SPICE used is compiled to include GStreamer.

After your question I have just tested if the mic sharing actually works (macOS 12 host) and it seems to be broken with all audio cards. 🙅

Edit: Opened #3299