18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
8:21 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
VMware can, FYI.
-Dave
I hate to agree with Dave (grin), but yes, you have access to pretty
much all of the standard hardware and ports.
Most of what I've used has been USB based.
Someone asked about scanners, yes, this definitely works.
You select a pull down menu to "connect" the hardware to the VM. When
you are done using it, you uncheck the option, and then the host has
access to the hardware again. This is true for USB devices, CD/DVD
burners, etc.
While there are better options, I had a USB flash drive connected to the
VM, copied some files, connected back to the host, and now the drive
shows up in host. Interesting because you are moving data from one
place to another via some hardware on exactly the same machine.
This process generally just works.
Keith
Really? I
thought it allowed some access to real hardware.
The problem with VMs is that there is no access to real hardware at
all, everything's virtualized. There may be an exception for USB
devices, but neither VirtualBox nor KVM/qemu map real hardware in a
1:1 fashion.