On 09/10/2011 09:39, Dave Walker wrote:
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Sent: 09 October 2011 08:51
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Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Dilwyn's scanner
On 08/10/2011 12:10, pjwitte wrote:
On 07/10/2011 17:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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But first, I have to find new drivers for my old Benq5000 scanner.
The manufacturer's site lists no drivers for Win7 64-bit and the
driver on CD does not work either, even using the compatibility
assistant for drivers, so I may have to do this using the old PC :-(
You may be able to load drivers and run your scanner in a virtual
machine. I did that successfully with a device attached to USB, for
which there was no 64bit driver, in a VirtualBox machine sporting
W2k.
Per
That's interesting. I tried the same trick with VMware for my scanner,
but it wouldn't work and I was told that VMware relies on the host
machine for peripheral drivers and other services.
Bryan H
UK
That is true for non-USB devices and also where you have USB devices that
you let the host OS take control of rather than the VMWare guest OS.
The VMWare USB support allows for a transparent "pass-through" mode and in
that mode you can normally use anything that the guest OS has drivers for.
To use this mode you need to be running the guest OS and it must have the
current focus when you plug the USB device in.
Dave Walker
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Thanks Dave. But I don't understand "current focus". Can you explain a
bit please as I struggle with the techhie bits. VMware was set up for
me and I hardly understand it except that it gives me Kubuntu and W2000
(or did until the latter failed)
Bryan
Bryan
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