I have a physical box that contains usb dongle. Can I convert this box physical to virtual and be able to use usb dongle? I am using infrastructure 3 and VM Converter to convert from physical to virtual.
Answer: According to the VMware documentation, ESX Server hosts don’t support USB controllers. Therefore, you will not be able to use USB for the virtual machines converted from physical ones.
3 Comments
Peter(May 24, 2007) Do you know if this is the same case for free VMware Server?
Crowey(May 27, 2007) No, you can use USB in VMware Server - also note, that if you're using a Windows host, there are IP-based USB hubs that can be accessed over the network; sadly none have drives for Linux yet.
