running a camera inside a virtual machine?

[Martin Wessendorf-3]

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Dear all--

With the demise of support for Windows 7, I'm trying to find a way to keep
our camera (--Scion 1394 grayscale) running.  Has anyone tried running the
drivers for a camera like this using a Windows 7 or XP virtual machine
inside, say, a Linux box?

Thanks--

Martin Wessendorf

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Simplest solution is to just unplug the Ethernet cord.

Secondly, try win10 and see if it works.

If all else fails, KVM+QEMU can achieve bare metal performance by passing through the devices you need. I think you said your camera uses firewire, so you would passthrough the entire firewire controller. I suggest Centos 7 and virt-manager to get the job done. I don't know if virt-manager was removed in Centos8 with the whole new cockpit thing. But it may also be worth looking into.