[sane-devel] Running a scanner's Windows application under an emulator?

[MP]

> How does it work with the vmware/virtualbox? do these applications create a window (for example in Gnome) which is a `virtual windows machine' (looks like a windows desktop) and I can run the scanner application in there?.

I have experience only with virtualbox - you will install entire
windows installation inside virtalbox (so you will need windows
license for that), then in the virtual machine settings you check the
"Enable USB" and "Enable USB 2.0", then you connect your scanner to
your PC and click on button "Add filter from device" there and pick
yor scaner there. Virtualbox will be now set to reroute that usb
device to your virtualmachine, so inside the virtualized windows you
will install ordinary windows drivers (and also perhaps software like
USBsnoop to sniff communication over USB) and ordinary windows
software that will work with your scanner.

Martin Petricek