Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

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JimDodds
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Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by JimDodds »

I'm trying to install a Firewire card in my Virtual Box XP machine that is already installed on my Windows 10 host. I get to the point in Add New Hardware where it looks for a driver, but it needs to go out on the web to find it and XP won't do it.
The card is a Star Tech PCI1394MP and it says XP will automatically install drivers, but no luck on that.

Any ideas out there?

Thank you,
Jim Dodds
BillG
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by BillG »

The vm cannot see the hardware of your host. It only sees its own emulated devices. There is no emulated firewire device in the vm, so you are out of luck.
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JimDodds
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by JimDodds »

I appreciate your reply, but to clarify, are you saying that there's no way to add
an emulation to the VM?

Thanks,
Jim
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by BillG »

Not unless you think that you can write one yourself.
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by JimDodds »

Thank you...
jorgensen
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by jorgensen »

You can always use USB adapters, and with the new USB-3 interface, it should word accordingly in guests.
JimDodds
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by JimDodds »

Thanks, but that just doesn't work with a Firewire scanner.
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by jorgensen »

I was referring to a USB to Firewire adapter.
JimDodds
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by JimDodds »

I understand that USB to Firewire doesn't work well because of different ways of handling data.
iz0wkv
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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by iz0wkv »

Hi, i have a similar problem: i want to use a 1394 of the host PC windows 10 with a virtual machine windows 7, it's possible? Some info about this please?

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Re: Add 1394 Firewire cared to guest

Post by towo2099 »

What's hard to understand in:
The vm cannot see the hardware of your host. It only sees its own emulated devices. There is no emulated firewire device in the vm, so you are out of luck.
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