CentOS - Mar 2021 - qemu-kvm images of old Windows XP SP3

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey
wrote:
>I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software
>has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to
>get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
>
>Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7
>under kvm?
A search on DuckDuckGo (but not Google) led me to this .iso:

     https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jcu at labadie.us

On Mar 13, 2021, at 17:28, Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>
wrote:
> 
> ?On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
>> I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software
>> has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to
>> get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10.
>> 
>> Anyone know where I can obtain images of this old OS to run in CentOS 7
>> under kvm?
> 
> A search on DuckDuckGo (but not Google) led me to this .iso:
> 
>    https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86
> 
> -- 
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jcu at labadie.us
Thank you. I?ll see if that loads as a VM. It doesn?t need to be patched or be
on the Internet. Just needs to load the Nikon software and be able to
pass-through the USB port to control the scanner.

Will report back here once I?ve done that test.

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