Just a suggestion - buy yourself an inexpensive wired or wireless print
server. They provide a great deal of platform indpendence.
On a more direct Hyper-V note - there are 3rd party USB over IP solutions
such as FabulaTech. See my blog for details.
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Charlie.
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"Joop Siroop" wrote in message news:2008101516183joopsiroop2@xxxxxx
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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.
>
>