5

Can you access a scanner from a virtual machine

view full story
linux-howto

http://forums.opensuse.org – Can I access a USB scanner from Windows XP running in a Virtualbox virtual machine on OpenSuse 11.1 or 11.2? I need to purchase a scanner, and the support for scanners under linux appears to be somewhat limited. I have a Virtualbox virtual machine in which I can run Windows XP, and since all of the scanners I have seen are strongly supported under that OS I was wondering if I could just access the scanner from Windows XP under the virtual machine. That way if I buy a scanner and can't get it to work under OpenSuse (I'm currently using v11.1 on one computer and v11.2 on another computer), I can still get it to work by using the VM. Thank you. (Distributions)

dayu's picture
Submitted by dayu on 02/19/2010 – Made popular on 02/19/2010

Stories similar to Can you access a scanner from a virtual machine

KrunchTime wrote:I use a virtual machine at home for things like this that don't need the full power of your computer.That way you don't have to reboot for those simple programs that don't work in Wine.I still need dual-boot to rip cd's (since EAC needs direct hardware access) and play recent games.The problem with running Windows virtually is that you can only access periphera

I have SANE and SANE-scanner installed in my Ubuntu 12.04 box. I have an Epson V500 flatbed scanner, tied by USB to my machine. On my network I also have an HP All-in-One that has scanner functionality. Both are detected by the computer as scanners. I want to always use the Epson scanner but can't find a way to tell SANE-scanner to use the (second listed) Epson scanner.

I have a Brother MFC-7345 printer/scanner and I got the printer working but the scanner just won't work on Fedora 11, I've been to the Brother Linux support site and nothing they're saying to do works. When I type sane-find-scanner i get

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the

I decided to try the 64 bit version of 12.04 I have gone through the driver install procedures that have worked for the 32 bit OS but can't seem to find the reason why Xsane and Simple scan don't see my scanner. The scanner is a Brother MFC3220C. sane-find-scanner seems to find the device:

Code: paul@paul-P5K-SE:~$ sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect

kinda new to ubuntu been using it for a year. Running 11.10 In the past i've been able to solve my issues by searching the internet. But now I'm trying to install cannon pixma mx432 printer scanner. I got the printer working but I'm having a hard time with the scanner i get this message when i have sane find scanner

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner.

I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i. I compiled SANE from source. When I run sane-find-scanner, the following output is given:

sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the result is different from what you expected, first make sure your scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. No SCSI scanners found.

Hello,

I am trying to read a file with a Scanner so I can use the input of the strings to construct other objects. However my scanner is always throwing a NullPointerException when trying to create it. I have a pig.txt text file in the res/raw folder but my scanner can not seem to access it. I do not know what I am doing wrong.

Can't print with Lexmark X2500 3 years 19 weeks ago

I just installed OpenSuse on my machine which had Windows. Everything works except my printer/scanner. I don't really need the scanner, but I absolutely must be able to print. It's a Lexmark x2500. OpenPrinting.org suggests using the pbm2l2030 filter. I've set this up with the printer configuration in Yast, and I have to manually select the driver.

I have just got around to installing my scanner and followed this thread to the letter and nothing is working.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=594951

here is what I get when I do sane-find-scanner

Code: me@My-desktop:~$ sane-find-scanner