20 Jul
2010
20 Jul
'10
4:21 p.m.
On 07/20/2010 11:52 AM, John Foust wrote:
Another stunner was that vmWare didn't support
native USB on the host.
They're accomplishing thousands of other miracles, but can't virtualize
USB enough for me to connect a drive to a virtual appliance?
(I think this is fixed in last month's major release.)
Works beautifully under VMWare Fusion. And when I did have to use
windows, it worked nicely under VMWare server.
It disconnects the device from the host OS and passes the USB connection
to the guest. I've not tried it under VMWare Workstation, but I suspect
it would work just the same.
Yeah, the lack of serial ports on modern machines is annoying. There
are plenty of USB to serial cables out there, but not all of them work
well, and the device moves around, making it annoying to find. Is it
com3? com2? com37? :-)