I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
Dave McGuffey
Am 13.03.21 um 16:03 schrieb David McGuffey:
I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
Its not FOSS but checkout VueScan. Maybe just changing the software instead the OS is more hassle free ...
-- Leon
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 10:04, David McGuffey vz@mcguffeyfamily.com wrote:
I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
Even if the Windows XP was running in a VM, you would need to have the underlying OS able to 'recognize' the device somewhat to pass it to the VM. That can take enough work that you will find it easier to buy off of ebay someone selling a laptop or computer from that era and run Windows XP native.
Dave McGuffey
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
A search on DuckDuckGo (but not Google) led me to this .iso:
https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86
On Mar 13, 2021, at 17:28, Jon LaBadie jcu@labadie.us wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
A search on DuckDuckGo (but not Google) led me to this .iso:
https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86
-- Jon H. LaBadie jcu@labadie.us
Thank you. I’ll see if that loads as a VM. It doesn’t need to be patched or be on the Internet. Just needs to load the Nikon software and be able to pass-through the USB port to control the scanner.
Will report back here once I’ve done that test.
RESIST CENSORSHIP
On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 17:34 -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
On Mar 13, 2021, at 17:28, Jon LaBadie jcu@labadie.us wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7 under kvm?
A search on DuckDuckGo (but not Google) led me to this .iso:
https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86
-- Jon H. LaBadie jcu@labadie.us
Thank you. I’ll see if that loads as a VM. It doesn’t need to be patched or be on the Internet. Just needs to load the Nikon software and be able to pass-through the USB port to control the scanner.
Will report back here once I’ve done that test.
RESIST CENSORSHIP
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Thanks to all who responded. I had checked out VuScan a couple of years ago on Win7 but the capabilities to remove imperfections and control the RBG settings is not as rich. Found an old CD with WinXP SP3 on it but qemu-kvm would not pass the CD to the VM creation process. Ended up moving everything to a USB stick. Successfully created the VM and installed the software. Next step is to hook up the USB scanner, pass it to the VM and test.
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