Can you use a USB dongle inside a VMWare ESX Virual Machine?

Posted by Keith Sirmons on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Keith Sirmons
Published on 2009-06-20T05:02:22Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 1:48 UTC
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Howdy,

I need to know if a USB dongle that is required as a license key for a piece of software will accessible from the physical host machine.

This will be a small vSphere 4 installation targeting the quick backup and system restore capabilities of VMWare, not specifically HA, so I am not to worried about the virtual machine automatically failing over to another physical machine and the dongle not being accessible.

Does ESX have the capability to map a physical USB port or device to a specific Virtual Machine?

I believe this is the dongle: Sentinal Superpro USB Dongle by Rainbow Technologies

Thank you,
Keith

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