RealSense F200 on Windows 7 running on Parallels Virtual machine

[Farshad_N_]

I was just wondering if anyone has been able to connect to the F200 camera and get video from it or run the examples in the SDK on a virtual machine running windows 7. In my case I can see the camera in device manager and all drivers got installed when I connected the camera to the USB port. I can also see the camera listed as a device under video streaming application such as VLC, connect to it (the power light turns on) but can't get any video out of it. The microphones work. When I first ran one of the examples in the SDK I could see the Realsense was listed as a camera device but program failed connecting to it. I closed this and opened another example, but then could not see the RealSense listed any more. However I could still see it listed in Windows device manager as well as programs such as VLC!

I see that Win8 is listed as one of the requirements, but just thought to check to see if anyone has ever been able to use it on windows7?

Also if I must use win8, is it possible to run Win8 on Virtual machine (Parallels) since my laptop is a macbook pro i7.

Thanks

Farshad

[samontab]

It would be difficult to run it through a VM because it requires USB 3.0, which is not supported greatly by some Virtual Machine managers.

Having said that, it seems that parallel does in fact support usb 3.0:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/115008

[Xin_W_1]

camera should work in VMware fusion but there is a setting you have to adjust.

Here is a short solution I wrote:

https://datanpixels.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/intel-realsense-sdk-on-macbook-pro/

I don't have parallel so I couldn't test it for you :(

[Xin_W_1]

camera should work in VMware fusion but there is a setting you have to adjust.

Here is a short solution I wrote:

https://datanpixels.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/intel-realsense-sdk-on-macbook-pro/

I don't have parallel so I couldn't test it for you :(

[Farshad_N_]

Thanks guys for your suggestions. I enabled USB3.0 on parallels and can now get both RGB and Depth frames using video streaming programs such as VLC. However non of the SDK examples list the F200 camera under the device list! So although other camera access programs list F200 cameras in their device list, SDK example programs do not!

Attached is a screen shot of my Device manager. I can see that "Intel RealSense 3D camera(Front F200) Depth" and  "Intel RealSense 3D camera(Front F200) RGB" are listed. Also I have an entry under Universal Serial Bus devices called "WinUsb Device". This also relates to the RealSense camera since it goes away when I disconnect the camera from the USB port. I am just wondering if this gives a clue of what the problem is.

Thanks

Farshad 

[samontab]

This probably means that it is not being correctly detected.

The information that you are getting is similar to what you can get from an unsupported OS, say, Win7, or even Linux.

Probably the host machine has to be able to detect the camera correctly to send the data towards the guest OS... meaning that you probably can't get it working with a Win7 or any other unsupported OS as the host... although the guest in theory could run it. It kinda makes sense actually...

[Farshad_N_]

Thanks Samontab. One more bit of information is that the host machine is actually Mac OS X and the guest is the Win7 Enterprise.

Also before win7 attempts to install the driver "WinUsb Device", in the Device Manager it lists an unknown device under "Other devices" called "Intel RealSense 3D camera (Front F200)" and then installs the "WinUsb Device" and removes the entry under the "Other devices" (see attached screen shot). Does this mean that a proper driver is missing? I must add that if "WinUsb Device" is not installed then other programs such as VLC do not work either. 

Any ideas?

Thanks

Farshad

[samontab]

Well, the SDK will not work on the Win7 OS. You need Win8.1.

[Farshad_N_]

Ok, I guess the SDK has special requirements that programs such as VLC and other webcam programs don't since they can access the F200 under win7.

So, if I must use win8, is it possible to run Win8 on Virtual machine (Parallels) since my laptop is a macbook pro i7 or should I buy or find a computer running win8.1 direct?

Farshad

[samontab]

A computer with Win8.1 "direct" is the officially supported way of doing it.

You can try with a virtual machine, but it may not work, and may have additional issues...

If you are planning on doing any serious work with the camera, I suggest you to save yourself a lot of issues and use a dedicated machine.

[Farshad_N_]

Okay, thanks for your help and suggestions.

Farshad

[Farshad_N_]

Although I must say I am still confused as to why programs such as VLC can get video from F200 on win7 but SDK programs can't?

Farshad

[samontab]

Well, one thing is to get an image from the camera. but the actual depth may be calculated on the PC side based on the IR image with the projected IR pattern for example, and that is not a standard camera thing....

[Ray_H_]

Realsense F200 running out of Windows 10 VM using VMware Workstation 12

Has anybody been successful in getting this going? Everything works fine running out of Windows 10 on a base machine. However no luck with  VMware Workstation 12 with USB 3.0 configured correctly and running a Windows 10 VM. The VM says that it sees the camera and says that all is working correctly, but the Hello option does not appear (as it does when running W10 out of a base machine). Maybe VMware needs to have something tweaked?? Any suggestions. Thank you. Ray