Another option http://www.kernelpro.com/ - USB over Ethernet.
It seems to be one of the less expensive ones and has worked well for us. James. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Friday, 23 January 2015 9:23 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] USB passthrough on Hyper-V 2012 R2 http://www.eltima.com/products/usb-over-ethernet/ http://www.usb-over-network.com/ Here are a couple... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:13 PM, J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What/where is this IP addressable USB socket product? I actually have a dongle on a users workstation because the DONGLE would work on the HyperV (it's a Vectoworks dongle) thanks ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] USB passthrough on Hyper-V 2012 R2 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:44:58 +0000 We do this with VMware as well. From: Robert Peterson<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> I have run into this, but within Hyper-V 2010 and used a 3rd party IP addressable USB socket to plug the license dongle into. Then pointed the "guest" to use that IP address as it's USB port. Been working for years. Just an idea, Robert From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] USB passthrough on Hyper-V 2012 R2 I have not tested this personally, but I thought it worked with Win8.1 RDP as well (which is available as a separate download for Win7 and Win8). Have you tried that? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:19 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] USB passthrough on Hyper-V 2012 R2 I have this working, but am I missing something? For this to work does a user absolutely, positively _have_ to be logged on using an Enhanced Session Mode VM connection? I need to have a piece of software connect to a USB licensing dongle, and it would be, shall we say, less than optimal to have to have user logged in 24/7 and an appropriate VM connection window open. I've got to be missing something, right? If not, MS's solution is useful for one-off stuff, but not for anything where a USB device needs to be connected all the time. I have used USB over network solutions with good success before, so we can certainly go that route. I was just hoping we wouldn't have to.
