eHome Infrared Receiver fails to start

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I can't seem to get my Windows Media Center Infrared Receiver (aka eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)) to work with both Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows Vista Home Premium VMs. The Device Manager says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".

I tested the receiver on 2 different Windows 7 PCs, as well as my Mac Pro (Bootcamp) running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Any ideas?

I'm running Parallels Desktop 6.0.11992 on a Dual Processor Mac Pro. Mac OS X 10.6.5. Both VM's have 2 GB's of RAM allocated out of 12 GB's available.

 

[David255]

I can't seem to get my Windows Media Center Infrared Receiver (aka eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)) to work with both Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows Vista Home Premium VMs. The Device Manager says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".

I tested the receiver on 2 different Windows 7 PCs, as well as my Mac Pro (Bootcamp) running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Any ideas?

I'm running Parallels Desktop 6.0.11992 on a Dual Processor Mac Pro. Mac OS X 10.6.5. Both VM's have 2 GB's of RAM allocated out of 12 GB's available.

Yeah, i have a mac pro quad core running 10.8.5 and no matter wether i load windows 7, 8 or Vista i get the same error. Yet if i move the remote and ir device to a actual PC running any of these versions of windows, it works fine. I thought maybe it was a driver difference, but ive tried the drivers from the actual PC's copied to the VM, ive loaded them from the installers, etc. All result in error code 10. But only when rain on a VM, works fine on a normal PC. Makes no sense.... Has to be something to do with Parallels, not the hardware or what type of mac its being used on. Guess i'll try a trial copy of VMWare and see if it works with their product since there seems to be no intent to help anyone here. Sad because i love this software and it sucks people have been trying to get a answer to this for years now with no results. Even if the answer was sorry it wont work because of something in our code, whatever. ANY answer would be nice. Closest answer i saw anyone get was a guy with a Hackintosh and he only was replied to saying they wouldnt get any support because it was on a hackintosh. Yet us people who have paid good money for not only your product, but the computer its running on, get NOTHING in return as far as support goes here? I sure hope VMWare works, this is a annoying problem that one would think could easilly be fixed if anyone cared enough to do so.