Im looking to purchase a USB based piece of hardware which I want to install on one of my virtual machines. The virtual machine will be linux based. Is it possible to map the pysical USB port directly to my VM machine ??
Many Thanks,
Mounting USB devices to VM guests is available in 4.1. http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/VMDirectPath/USB_Setup.php
And also http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022290
Ok cool, if i upgrade to 4.1 what issues would I have with my licensing .....
As long as your SnS is current you should be fine. You would need to upgrade to vCenter 4.1 first which does require a 64bit OS.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_upgrade_guide.pdf
At present it isnt linked into a vcentre server. Will be eventually.
So if I upgrade it to 4.1 will I have to add a new license ??
The license number works for 4.0 or 4.1 so no change.
Base on experience, anything that is in 4.x would share the same serial key. bare in mind that i've tried usb passthru' for tape drive and usb drive for backup and the performance was not really that good. maybe it's just me.