How to mount a virtual PC?

I have this question because I'm in the quest of making my laptop with windows 7 64 bit home premium to control my Rebel XT (shoot tethered). I have tried once before using virtual box, but I couldn't get the rebel xt to connect. I don't know if I was doing something wrong or not.

I have been googling for months about alternatives to the WIA driver, since canon has refused to make a new driver for windows 7 (guess my XT is too old) I found that some people where mounting virtual pc's with XP in order to do tethered shooting so I know its possible.

Any ideas or steps one has to do in order for a virtual pc to work correctly?

Cuervo79 wrote in post #9540679
I have this question because I'm in the quest of making my laptop with windows 7 64 bit home premium to control my Rebel XT (shoot tethered). I have tried once before using virtual box, but I couldn't get the rebel xt to connect. I don't know if I was doing something wrong or not.

I have been googling for months about alternatives to the WIA driver, since canon has refused to make a new driver for windows 7 (guess my XT is too old) I found that some people where mounting virtual pc's with XP in order to do tethered shooting so I know its possible.

Any ideas or steps one has to do in order for a virtual pc to work correctly?

Upgrade to professional and use XP mode

don't got the 90$ yet... any other options?

Nothing legal unless you have a copy of windows XP

lol great... I'll have to save some $$ for that... Hey basroil, have you tried any of this? Do you have any cameras of the year of the Rebel XT (like the 5d) to see if it works? Don't want to waste 90 bucks just to see that it didn't lead no nowhere

Have an xt, but haven't bothered tethering in forever because it doesn't have liveview, making tethering pretty pointless (unless you want timelapse, but even then you can just get a 16gb card and it'll last longer than your batteries)

yeah I just want it to have an automatic preview to see in the laptop without taking the cf card out, looks like I'll have to stay connecting and disconnecting the USB cable for this