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Needed a Windows 10 install to use my Creality Ferret 3D-scanner. I had only used it on the Windows machine at work before. Also the Einstar Vega, which I want to get, doesn't seem to have any Linux support.

In fact I couldn't find any popular models with any Linux software.

Instead of soiling my internal SSD I wanted to boot from an external one over USB 3. After a lot of searching and some failed attempts I landed on WinToUSB and it just worked with a 22H2 ISO under the Win 7 VM that I already had. Key seems to be baked into my machine which had Windows on it when it was new.

Supposedly Rufus can also create a WinToGo installation, but the latest version wanted Win10 or newer, which I didn't have access to at the time.

There's something to be said for a tool that just works and doesn't give you any grief. Don't regret the few bucks I paid for the Pro version.

Needed a Windows 10 install to use my Creality Ferret 3D-scanner. I had only used it on the Windows machine at work before. Also the Einstar Vega, which I want to get, doesn't seem to have any Linux support. In fact I couldn't find any popular models with any Linux software. Instead of soiling my internal SSD I wanted to boot from an external one over USB 3. After a lot of searching and some failed attempts I landed on WinToUSB and it just worked with a 22H2 ISO under the Win 7 VM that I already had. Key seems to be baked into my machine which had Windows on it when it was new. Supposedly Rufus can also create a WinToGo installation, but the latest version wanted Win10 or newer, which I didn't have access to at the time. There's something to be said for a tool that just works and doesn't give you any grief. Don't regret the few bucks I paid for the Pro version.
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You can pass USB devices to a VirtualBox VM. Get a Win10 VM running and you might be able to run the scanner from that without shutting down and booting into Windows.

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Thanks for the tip and I got the scanner recognized and its drivers installed in the 7 VM. CrealityScan also runs under Win7 x64. It was the original plan and why I upgraded to 64 GB of RAM.

Alas, I found that the scanning software needs native access to the machine's 3D acceleration hardware. During scanning it needs to throw the point cloud around among other things.

There doesn't seem to be a good or even any solution for VirtualBox, which I used. I'm done with VMWare for a while after they got on my nerves. Not that I'd expect it to fare much better. I think there was a solution for Nvidia? I use AMD.

I really don't mind booting into the installation on the SSD for the few times I need to. It's a clean and convenient solution for now, which only has that one reboot drawback.

Hopefully the manufacturers will provide native Linux software in the future.