Can you use a USB dongle inside a VMWare ESX Virual Machine?
- by Keith Sirmons
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