Scanners and virtual Snow Leopard

[Chris Moss]

I just bought Parallels 9 in order to make a VM of Snow Leopard in order to run a PPC app using Rosetta. The app is Nikon Scan, and it is used with a firewire attached Nikon LS9000ED film scanner. My problem is that Nikon Scan opens and runs in the VM, but cannot 'see' the scanner. Can firewire devices somehow be seen by a Parallels VM?

My other option is to spend $499 on Silverfast Ai 8, or stick with Vuescan, which works but cannot take advantage of all the scanner offers. They will both run in 10.9.

Chris

 

[GC_YVR]

Can you see the Firewire Bus under About the Mac -> More Info? in your VM.

I suspect Firewire driver was not implemented.

I think it might be better to get a second older machine with firewire to do it non virtually anyways.

I just bought Parallels 9 in order to make a VM of Snow Leopard in order to run a PPC app using Rosetta. The app is Nikon Scan, and it is used with a firewire attached Nikon LS9000ED film scanner. My problem is that Nikon Scan opens and runs in the VM, but cannot 'see' the scanner. Can firewire devices somehow be seen by a Parallels VM?

My other option is to spend $499 on Silverfast Ai 8, or stick with Vuescan, which works but cannot take advantage of all the scanner offers. They will both run in 10.9.

Chris

 

[Chris Moss]

I suspect you are right. The problem is partly that I'm using a MBA with a firewire to thunderbolt adaptor, and the Snow Leopard installation doesn't see any firewire bus. Time to dig out an old Mac!

Chris