Twain scanner in Virtual Box

[Baconwallah]

Hello all,

Having recently replaced my old XP laptop with a win 7/64 one, i am unable to use my expensive Canon 9900F scanner. Canon refuses to help.No Win 7/64 drivers now or ever. Buy a new one.

I have now installed Virtual Box and am running XP in it. Works a treat, so I thought I'd try to set up the scanner in the VB XP environment as well.

Installation of the driver appeared to go well, there were no error massages. But when I attempt to attach the scanner through the Devices->USB Devices menu it doesn't work and I get nowhere. Apparently there is no useable Twain driver. An error window says:

Failed to attach the USB device Canon Scanner [0301] to the virtual machine WinXP.

USB device 'Canon Scanner' with UUID {5f4ae051-1b8e-47c6-8d65-2c70af9effd3} is busy with a previous request. Please try again later.

Result Code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
Component: HostUSBDevice
Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a}
Callee: IConsole {1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb}

Obviously this is all Chinese to me. I am slowly but surely getting desperate. Is there a way to get my scanner working again in VB XP (or in any other way), or should I just take my loss and buy a new one (and not a Canon this time)?

Any advice will be most gratefully received!

Baconwallah

[stefan.becker]

Extension Pack on the Host is installed?!

Have you tried USB Filters?

Anyway: Buying a new scanner will be the best solution. Or try installing linux via dual boot.

[Baconwallah]

Thanks for the reply, Stefan.

The Guest Additions have been installed and are active. As for USB filters, I haven't come across those yet. Where do i find them, please?

The root of the problem appears to be that the driver will not install in the virtual XP machine. Linux would be a good idea, but the installer for the Twain drivers and ScanGear (which I need to make scanning slides and negatives easier) is for Win (32 bit) only.

As you say, a new scanner (any brand but Canon) will probably be the best solution. Or a cheap old XP laptop just to run the scanner.

[stefan.becker]

Guest Additions != Extension Pack.

The Extension Pack must be installed on the host to get USB 2 in the guest.

I had a look at the sane homepage. Was a bad idea, linux does not support your model.