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Old 10-15-2008   #2 (permalink)
Bo Berglund


 
 

Re: USB needed on Hyper-V

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:18:04 -0700, Joop Siroop wrote:
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>People keep asking why usb is important.
>
>Here is an example:
>I do run a 64bit Hyper-V machine, because of the RAM limitation of 32 bit.
>I want to connect a printer to share it on the network. No luck, while being new the printer is also cheap and there are only 32 bit drivers for it. On the Hyper-V lives a Windows XP installation, on wich the printer drivers could reside if I could connect the printers usb port to the virtual XP machine.
>
Switch to VMWare instead. It has supported USB in guests for ages....

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