17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
10:54 a.m.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:55 PM, John Foust wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
As for real devices connecting to emulators and VMs,
it is true
that the workstation environments let you connect to that machine's
USB or other devices, but ESXi doesn't even talk to the USB on the
host computer (although it's a bug). Instead, people are using
USB to Ethernet adapters that speak TCP/IP with a driver running
inside the VM.
ESXi does real-device passthrough nicely for SCSI host
adapters...I set that up just last night on a customer's machine; a
tape drive is now accessible from a VM. I've not needed USB
yet...what release(s) does that bug affect, do you know offhand? Is
there any workaround to allow USB device access?
-Dave