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From: michael on 6 Mar 2010 13:25 Well, it took me two days - but it works. Maintopic is to use the correct networkadapter to get connection to the connected devices. and You have to install the software on the virtual Pc definitly using the same ip as on the host for the belkin. hope that helps Michael Bo Berglund wrote: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? 09-Mar-09 I have a question regarding the use of USB devices in VirtualPC. I know that USB is not emulated in the VPC2007 hardware so normally it would not be possible to use such devices in a virtual machine. But now I have come across a nifty networked USB hub from Belkin: http://www.belkin.com/networkusbhub/ It seems like this is a product that uses TCP/IP networking to connect to a USB device using some translation software from Belkin (a driver of sorts) to handle the bridge to a PC. Apparently any USB device attached to the hub can be connected to from several different PC:s on the network, but only one at a time, using TCP/IP. Since my virtual machines have excellent networking capabilities it would open up new avenues of software testing if this product could be used. So the question now (before I shell out the $99) is: Has anyone using VPC2007 virtual machines gotten this to work? If so did it also work with USB connected software protection dongles (which is my main headache when testing software in a virtualized environment)? -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) Previous Posts In This Thread: On Monday, March 09, 2009 7:14 AM Bo Berglund wrote: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? I have a question regarding the use of USB devices in VirtualPC. I know that USB is not emulated in the VPC2007 hardware so normally it would not be possible to use such devices in a virtual machine. But now I have come across a nifty networked USB hub from Belkin: http://www.belkin.com/networkusbhub/ It seems like this is a product that uses TCP/IP networking to connect to a USB device using some translation software from Belkin (a driver of sorts) to handle the bridge to a PC. Apparently any USB device attached to the hub can be connected to from several different PC:s on the network, but only one at a time, using TCP/IP. Since my virtual machines have excellent networking capabilities it would open up new avenues of software testing if this product could be used. So the question now (before I shell out the $99) is: Has anyone using VPC2007 virtual machines gotten this to work? If so did it also work with USB connected software protection dongles (which is my main headache when testing software in a virtualized environment)? -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) On Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:26 AM Bo Berglund wrote: Re: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:52 -0700 (PDT), ronald.phillips(a)gmail.com wrote: Because I should have posted on the virtual server NG instead... Fact is I am really trying to get a grip on how customers using virtualized servers can run our software on such servers. We use Safenet Sentinel SuperPro dongles for protection and there is nowhere to plug them into a virtual server guest windows server... VPC2007 is close enough to VS2005 in this respect that I thought I would get more responses here. But I did not create a post interesting enough, it seems like. Concerning my own testing: 1) When testing our software I use a build thta bypasses the dongle checks. Not possible to send to customers though... 2) When I test or use software from others, which use USB, I use VMWare Workstation 6.5 on my laptop. Works just fine, but wouldn't in the server scenario above since the USB hardware is not available on the host metal... -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) On Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:09 AM Steve Jain [MVP] wrote: Re: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:26:39 +0100, Bo Berglund <boberglund(a)home.se> wrote: There has been talk of this over on the virtualserver ng before...I think the FabulaTech one ($149) and mostly in regards to Hyper-V. http://www.usb-over-network.com/usbnet-solutions/virtual.html They specifically reference Virtual PC. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ On Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:45 PM Bo Berglund wrote: Re: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? Tried the demo on my XP-Pro SP3 (server) and an VPC2007 guest running XP-Home SP2 Swedish (client). Did't work... :-( -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:18 PM ronald.phillip wrote: Re: Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? On Mar 9, 7:14=A0am, Bo Berglund <bobergl...(a)home.se> wrote: ww.belkin.com/networkusbhub/ Any reason why you don't want to use VirtualBox/Vmware Player/Vmware Workstation before shelling out money for a piece of hardware that should be part of the emulation software anyway? Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Get Started with SQLite and Visual Studio http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/20f7912e-6fa7-40eb-b31b-b6f46d4f2c6a/get-started-with-sqlite-a.aspx
From: Bo Berglund on 6 Mar 2010 14:13
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:25:23 -0800, michael witlatschil wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: > >Using a network USB hub for a virtual machine? >09-Mar-09 This is an old, long time dead thread..... No use replying to it. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |