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Re: How Connect USB Dongle to a Virtual Machine?

FOSKingston — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:55:55 GMT

We use tha lantronix Ubox

http://www.alphamicro.net/components/product~line~11~id~511.asp

Works fine with FLexLM & Security Dongles and can connect diffrent machines to diffrent usb devices.

Uses a windows client unfortunatly but can be set as dedicated connection so the machine reconnects at boot time.

Re: How Connect USB Dongle to a Virtual Machine?

tom howarth — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:02:58 GMT

Welcome to the Forums.

As VMroyale says you will need to utilise a USB to IP product to install your USB dongle. This does give you the benefit of being able to vmotion the dongled guest from Host to Hoste as required.

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Re: How Connect USB Dongle to a Virtual Machine?

vmroyale — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:09:33 GMT

Hello and welcome to the forums.

To use a USB dongle with ESX, you will need to use something like the AnywhereUSB which uses USB over IP.

How Connect USB Dongle to a Virtual Machine?

Najjar — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:36:44 GMT

Hi All;

we are new in the virtual enviroment; we are planning to use VMware Infrastructure 3 VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3 and VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 3;

i craete i test enviroment from 3 esx servers and 1 virtual center; All our virtual machines are windows 2003 std and ent , one of our main application need a dongle; i didnt find anything in the documents available about how to assigen a usb port from a host to a virtual machine

anyone have any idea????

thanks