VMWare and USB Dongles

**Dante** · 21 September 2007, 12:58

dante

Hello,

Can you clarify exactly what you're trying to do? I might have used a piece of hardware that can help that offers ethernet over USB.

Dante

**weboo** · 21 September 2007, 13:28

We would like to run some scanning software which requires a usb dongle to work. I have heard of utilities that will make it work over ethernet, but am yet to find some.

Cheers

**Dante** · 24 September 2007, 08:46

http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp

**darmstadt** · 24 September 2007, 09:08

One of the software products that I support requires an USB dongle and although unsupported by the manufacturer I managed to run their software in a VMWare environment. I just mounted it via VMWare Tools.

**boredsenseless** · 24 September 2007, 14:38

Originally posted by darmstadt View Post

One of the software products that I support requires an USB dongle and although unsupported by the manufacturer I managed to run their software in a VMWare environment. I just mounted it via VMWare Tools.

Yep I did the same. Interestingly on some previous version instances of VMWare, it would 'remember' the dongle, and therefore you could use the VMware without the dongle once you'd built it with the dongle mounted.

I'm pretty sure this has been ironed out though.

**Mailman_1** · 1 October 2007, 13:58

VMware ESX server doesnt support USB controllers. Workstation and GSX do. As above use VMware tools to add the device.

VMWare and USB Dongles