Sometimes, well a lot of times, a VM is the best way to do things. As someone said today where would we be without VM's? Set up the VM and try it out but make sure of the licensing before you put it into production. Depending on the hardware you bought for the Win 2008 server and the licensing you have you may just want to put up a Hyper-V instead of the VMWare offering. YMMV.
Jon On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Charlie Kaiser <charl...@golden-eagle.org>wrote: > Got an odd problem with a client's setup. They had an SBS 2003 box that > smoked. We got them new hardware, installed SBS2008, everything's up and > working. Except for the printer. It's a Canon MF8180C. They use it as > networked printer and also want the fax and scan capability back. > > Problem: Canon's toolbox software isn't available for the 64-bit OS. The > 32-bit one won't install. They need the scan/fax capacity and don't want to > buy a different unit. > So my boss is thinking VMWare, 32-bit OS, install the print software, run > it > from there. > > Anyone tried it? I don't have any experience with the hardware > virtualization between the 32/64 -bit systems and what we might run into. > Sounds like a heck of a lot of work for a scanner... > > We're considering hooking the thing up to an XP box via USB and setting up > the software on that instead, but there are physical limitations/issues > with > doing that... I'm still pushing for that solution, though. A long USB cable > would be a LOT cheaper than setting up a VM... :-) > > *********************** > Charlie Kaiser > charl...@golden-eagle.org > Kingman, AZ > *********************** > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
