Sincere thanks for all the replies, I was hopeing to use a USB scanner, which
works ubder XP but not Vista. I will have a read of the other VM's available
and see if I can use one on my desktop.
Thanks again
Ray Z
"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:
Quote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:33:05 -0600, VanguardLH <V@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
> >ronald.phillips@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> Steve Jain wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Mark Rae wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> VanguardLH wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yet VMWare Server (also free) supports USB devices.
> >>>>
> >>>> As does VMWare Player (also free), and VMWare Workstation and
> >>>> VWMare Fusion (for Mac), though the last two aren't free... So does
> >>>> VirtualBox.
> >>>
> >>> And VMWare's most expensive VM offering, ESX, does not support USB.
> >>
> >> Vmotion/DRS are more important to Vmware in this product than USB
> >> support for a server.
> >
> >I also believe it has to do with the target market for a product. ESX
> >is not sold to end users. It is used for virtualized servers where
> >users don't have access to the console (display, keyboard, mouse) and
> >where "external" drives use NAS, not USB, and printers are networked,
> >not connected via USB cables. After all, why does a web server, file
> >server, or SQL server need USB support? Users shouldn't be using those
> >hosts, virtualized or real. >
> Yes, which are the same reasons that Hyper-V, "MS latest and
> greatest," doesn't either. That's the point I was making.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>