17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
11:04 a.m.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, John Foust wrote:
Crap. I'm going to need USB support in ESXi v3.5 soon. I'm stuck
at that release at this particular site because the host is a 32-bit
machine.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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?
It was promised in ESXi 4.0, I believe, about six months ago when
it was released, but it didn't work. There's an obscure workaround
that works on some (three-letter acronym) USB hardware but at the
expense of being able to snapshot or suspend, I think.