USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM
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We use software called Phone Tree and the softwares phone dialing device is attached to USB. Problem is its installed on a Hyper-V VM and USB is not available in a VM from what I can see. I called the vendor and they said we would need an Anywhere USB device that will make the software see the dialing device in a virtual environment. Anywhere USB device is about $330. Is this my only option if I want USB available in a VM?
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@alex.olynyk said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
We use software called Phone Tree and the softwares phone dialing device is attached to USB. Problem is its installed on a Hyper-V VM and USB is not available in a VM from what I can see. I called the vendor and they said we would need an Anywhere USB device that will make the software see the dialing device in a virtual environment. Anywhere USB device is about $330. Is this my only option if I want USB available in a VM?
You can't do USB passthrough with Hyper-V?
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@stacksofplates said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
You can't do USB passthrough with Hyper-V?
You should be able to, it's rather simple in Hyper-V from what I recall.
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You should be able to use USB to IP appliance, but for this all usb's that need to be shared would be connected to a separate server system.
Say a Linux or Windows server.
Here's an open source tool to do just this.
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@DustinB3403 said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
@stacksofplates said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
You can't do USB passthrough with Hyper-V?
You should be able to, it's rather simple in Hyper-V from what I recall.
USB passthrough for disks is completely different than USB passthrough for random device X
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@alex.olynyk said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
We use software called Phone Tree and the softwares phone dialing device is attached to USB. Problem is its installed on a Hyper-V VM and USB is not available in a VM from what I can see. I called the vendor and they said we would need an Anywhere USB device that will make the software see the dialing device in a virtual environment. Anywhere USB device is about $330. Is this my only option if I want USB available in a VM?
I highly recommend moving to one though because then the VM is not tied to a specific physical server. You can then DR from anywhere you need to spin up the server.
I have not used this unit yet, but I have heard others say how well it works.
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@JaredBusch said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
@DustinB3403 said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
@stacksofplates said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
You can't do USB passthrough with Hyper-V?
You should be able to, it's rather simple in Hyper-V from what I recall.
USB passthrough for disks is completely different than USB passthrough for random device X
Ah ok. I've seen places where people have passed through USB modems and such (on KVM). I just figured the whole device was passed through.
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Thanks everyone. I think I may go with Anywhere USB
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Not sure if this is EXACTLY what you're looking for... but you can do Enchanced Sessions. It acts like RDP so you can do pass through services.
I'll get a picture...
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Right-click your Hyper-V server and go to Hyper-V Settings. Under "Server" (not user... it's not the same thing) > Enhanced Session Mode Policy > Allow enhanced session mode.
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Both of those setting were enabled. Didnt work.
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@alex.olynyk said in USB Not Available in Hyper-V VM:
Both of those setting were enabled. Didnt work.
Well it was worth a look. Are they on a private adapter? That's probably why. Mine are not external, but they are internal, so the host can pass things through. Private is completely cut off from the host.
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external adapter
