Thanks for the tips everyone. I can't remember offhand which software we are currently using for other USB over network needs, but it has been very good for a number of years now. I will go that route for this application as well. I just read about Hyper-V 2012 R2's new feature and hoped it would obviate the need for a 3rd party solution. Oh well.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > >
