Hello and welcome to the forums.
You can add USB controllers to virtual machines, but attaching devices is not supported.
Good Luck!
Hello and welcome to the forums.
You can add USB controllers to virtual machines, but attaching devices is not supported.
Good Luck!
You can try with VMDirectPath. Some people was able to virtualize some USB device.
See:
Andre
... but attaching devices is not supported yet.
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MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert '2009
What's about the Passthrough function, does this help when I know which bus device it is?
Passthrough won't work but as Andre suggested have a look at VMDirectPath if your hardware supports it.
For simple USB connectivity you can also look at a network USB device. Digi, Belkin, Silex and others make network devices that allow you to connect USB devices to Virtual machines.
Its on the list, along with snapshots for FT virtual machines
Moved to the ESXi 4.0 forum.
Dave
VMware Communities User Moderator
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Do you have a system or PCI card working with VMDirectPath? Submit your specs to the Unofficial VMDirectPath HCL.
Ok, if it is on the roadmap, then I'll stop here. It is not such critical.
Thanks to everybody.