Expect a crap USB device to deadlock no matter what the OS is. Expect certain
devices needing very specific drivers not to function 100%. Expect every piece
of virtual machine software to have its very own quirks. Expect performance of
your entire machine to nose dive if you run the VMs off the same physical disk
as the host OS.
Now, with that said... If you have room have a separate internal hard drive
dedicated to VMs. You'll reduce thrashing on your primary drive. Secondly,
VMWare seems to play nicer with more USB devices "out of the box" and
Virtualbox (I give you the iPhone as example. Apparently works just fine with
VMWare but with VirtualBox 1.6.2 it will not install in a WinXP host). I've
used other USB devices without issue though. I can get relatively flawless
Quicktime playback (Apple movie trailers) with my VM
and a modern system.
If there is a moral to the story, something can and always will bite you in the
arse but it's becoming less and less these days.
That be all,
Mr O.
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