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Old 08-16-2011, 10:20 PM   #76
ScalyFreak
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Originally Posted by mwheinz View Post
I thought about that, but the cost of buying a copy of Windows just to test the problem seems a bit much...
I'm fairly sure the good hosts and owners of MR will not appreciate my pointing out the obvious solution to that. So I will be quiet.

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I suspect Parallels or VMWare wouldn't work, since they depend on OS X to interface with devices.
Oh, good point. My bad for not knowing enough about Parallels, I wasn't aware that it's actually a virtual environment.

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Originally Posted by gianfri View Post
I do not have Bootcamp, but I do have Parallels installed on the same iMac with Lion. I tried to connect the reader to a Windows XP VM in Parallels, but the Reader would not be recognized. In fact, Parallels, like Lion, was not even aware that the reader was connected. That would make sense, I suppose, because Parallels can only "pass on" to the VM whatever the Mas OS (and, therefore, Parallels) can detect.
That does make perfect sense. Again, my bad.
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