USB Passthrough help

liamcrane

liamcrane

liamcrane

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Hi all

Just a quick one with regards to usb Passthrough on my server. I am using Server 2012 (not r2) and have set this up as a hyper V server. I have a windows 7 VM running inside and have installed a few applications including iTunes. I wanted to try and sync my iPhone with iTunes in the VM but I can't find a way to pass this through and get it to work.

I tried the same thing in VMware workstation, connected my iPhone to the host system and Workstation installed the driver and my device was available in iTunes.

What is VMware workstation doing differently to Hyper V that allows this Passthrough to happen?

Any ideas?

Cheers guys
 
many thanks for the above guys. Seems that Hyper V has its limitations. Will this work on ESXi instead do you think? If not i might just keep running my VM's in VMware Workstation
 
That virtualhere software works like a charm! Using this on my Pi and it seems to do the trick its perfect. Getting some real good use out of my Pi, didnt realise just how good the little things are. Using it as an openvpn server, bittorrent sync for backing up my ios camera role and now a usb redirect
 
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