Thanks for the tip about 8.1's RDP. That does indeed work. It's still based on RDP, which doesn't suit my original goal of having true passthrough, but it is very useful to know.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]] *On Behalf Of *Richard Stovall > *Sent:* Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:19 PM > *To:* [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. >
