Windows XP Virtual Machine woes.

raddoc

It's many years since I had to deal with Windows in any form but I found an old photographic negative scanner I once used and its WinXP installation disk. I thought I would finish the scanning job I started in 2011!
I setup Win XP Pro as guest with Virtual box on my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop host.
I have access to my host's optical disk and usb ports in Win XP. I installed the scanner's driver but I cannot get Win XP to see the Traveler 6500 slide scanner when plugged into any of the host's USB ports. I can see USB sticks and play music off them so they are available in XP.
lsusb in Ubuntu lists the scanner and Virtual Box sees it and the checkbox is ticked.
The light inside the scanner lights when plugged in but XP doesn't give me "New hardware found" notification or the option to Safely Remove.
The scanner might be knackered or I might be missing some basic XP step here - it's only coming back to me very slowly!
Has anyone any suggestions?
Thanks.
Sean

Alun

Have you looked in Device Manager to see if there's anything there that's showing an error? Also in Device Manager click on the computer name in the right hand pane, right click and select "Scan for hardware changes" and see if that helps.

I assume you have already installed the drivers? In XP sometimes you have to install drivers for new USB devices first, reboot and then plug it in rather than relying on it finding the device automatically and prompting you ti install the driver.

raddoc

Thank you for your suggestions Alun.
Device manager showed USB driver issue. I reset USB controller to USB 1.1 in Virtual box and the scanner was recognised. However I got a warning that it was demanding 240% of USB bandwidth. I tried the USB 2.0 setting and the alert went away but I am not getting a picture from the scanner (yet). I'll keep mucking about.
Thanks again.
S.

smuggler.ie

raddoc wrote: »

Thank you for your suggestions Alun.
Device manager showed USB driver issue. I reset USB controller to USB 1.1 in Virtual box and the scanner was recognised. However I got a warning that it was demanding 240% of USB bandwidth. I tried the USB 2.0 setting and the alert went away but I am not getting a picture from the scanner (yet). I'll keep mucking about.
Thanks again.
S.

Do you have to use XP?
Can you not load driver and soft in compatibility mode in later Win versions?

lawred2

Just because the disk had an XP logo on it doesn't mean that the only version of windows or would ever work with was XP.

raddoc

smuggler.ie wrote: »

Do you have to use XP?
Can you not load driver and soft in compatibility mode in later Win versions?

I have a Win2000 installation disk and that's my next option. I have access to Win 10 but googling suggests that that is an OS too far as far as compatibility is concerned.

Dampsquid

smuggler.ie wrote: »

Do you have to use XP?
Can you not load driver and soft in compatibility mode in later Win versions?

Has XP been updated to latest SP?

smuggler.ie

raddoc wrote: »

I have a Win2000 installation disk and that's my next option. I have access to Win 10 but googling suggests that that is an OS too far as far as compatibility is concerned.

Have seen article with driver and soft, author claim to work with Win7/8, but source reliability test will be on you. Look around.

raddoc

Dampsquid wrote: »

Has XP been updated to latest SP?

My old WinXP disk is Service pack 2.
Am going to download an ISO of WinXP Service Pack 3 and start again.
Windows 2000 didn't work any better for me, apparently it had issues with USB 2.0 support anyway.
(ExplainingComputers.com has a good tutorial for Virtualbox noobs like me).

ED E

That scanner doesnt appear to be anything special, listings for 10GBP for them. Maybe just get something else and save the headache of USB driver passthrough.

raddoc

Could just get another more modern scanner but I'm enjoying having my sclerotic brain stretched and I need a lockdown project.