From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 1 10:37:58 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B57AA3D2B5 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:37:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@rofltech.com) Received: from new2-smtp.messagingengine.com (new2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.224]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BAC212F2 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@rofltech.com) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailnew.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9E12BA0 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 05:32:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from web5 ([10.202.2.215]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:32:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rofltech.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=q6gUhuTlkYBL/e6mIzpf1oJuEQs=; b=bwYi4v pTb/AdvfiilbNbwUCnr3+eX+ttojBaEE09IknPBNIYMBAHexPu/JdvOa/VLMCO2p C0ukJaAncJIABAfsj2hjshqCsw/tC1rw5bwzdK9R/DQNY2uDKsvXoNJu5F5pF7MK +05I3G7p0AJGS4j53WKn5w1ObNzAthWsdPddg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=q6gUhuTlkYBL/e6 mIzpf1oJuEQs=; b=naZpJh4nQxmyQO90WioGBn1TXjvA0OC3IgrgGMxaS6/AVMK YlPDjqXaI0K6TKEEKIkorf8raDlmhad0cTD8hX1FfblZtWmDuJf48901Tk1ImY+U u65aP34ShkJo7sWV6skmWMvXPskv/UF5Wk8OQEXS/MsXigRyKMWzxhuLq5vI= Received: by web5.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id BCB9BAC39A6; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 05:32:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1448965967.3568440.454508097.04476399@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: t9g26Xur1PT8kYKJTyKKMa98zAZtYBCx2qPLdVABvp6d 1448965967 From: Sean Zipperer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-b94e6169 In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: google hangout and/or skype Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 04:32:47 -0600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:37:58 -0000 On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 02:46 AM, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running Freebsd 10.2 amd64 on a desktop, and I would need to use > either Skype or Google Hangout for work. By perusing the web and the > mail lists, it seems that neither Hangout nor Skype work anymore on > FreeBSD. So, I installed Windows 7 in VirtualBox to get around this, > only to find out that in VirtualBox *USB* doesn't work on FreeBSD > hosts (and I have a USB webcam, which works in FreeBSD, as tested via > pwcview). > > Does anybody know of a solution short of dual-booting to Windows? I am > pretty positive that asking all colleagues to install uTox, ekiga, > etc. on their various systems is not going to be a successful > strategy. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion I believe you can run it with the linuxulator by adding linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and installing net-im/skype4 . In the case that doesn't work try wine maybe? The hosts of the BSDNow podcast have said they're using Skype and freebsd so it should be possible. Hangouts should work as last I used it there was a browser plugin for chrome for it which is available in freebsd. -- Sean Zipperer bsd at rofltech dot com