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f2photo
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‎11-13-2011 04:29 PM
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LaCie support on VmWare Fusion 4.02

I have a LaCie Thunderbolt drive.  I have read several posts on here that say that you can present drives to a VMWare guest.  Well I have tried this with SLES 11, RHEL 5.0 and Solaris 11 and have yet to make it work.  I have no issue with the USB drives I have, but have not found a way to present a partition or drive to the guest.  Does anyone have real world experience with this and how to do it?  I am dismayed that the answers I read in this group up until now suggested that you needed only have a paritition and make it presentable and it would work.  This is not true. 

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ColoradoMarmot
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‎11-17-2011 12:32 PM
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Fusion doesn't virtualize thunderbolt, so you'd have to use the shared folders feature to access it from within a guest.  A physical USB disk can be used directly by a VM.

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ColoradoMarmot
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‎11-17-2011 12:32 PM
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Fusion doesn't virtualize thunderbolt, so you'd have to use the shared folders feature to access it from within a guest.  A physical USB disk can be used directly by a VM.

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f2photo
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‎12-10-2011 03:19 AM
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Yeah checking with support they do not support it.  I wish they would add the bus to the support though since it is MUCH faster than USB.  I run Oracle 11gR2 RAC on my laptop using virtual guests so I can have my own test area for new things I want to develop.  USB for ASM is very slow and I could use the speed.

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