Hello, I have seen several postings about how USB ports on Sun Ray 2 clients connecting to a Virtual Machine running under VMWARE ESX (or ESXi) should work even if ESX doesn't support USB. I recently setup a Sun Ray 4 system with a Sun Ray 2 client. The Sun Ray 4 server and the Windows XP workstation are both installed on a ESXi server (they are both Virtual Machines running on a Sun x4100 M2 server with ESXi). The Sun Ray is working and is able to connect to the Windows XP workstation with the Windows Connector. I am having no issue with the performance of the system in my small lab.
I then started to test the USB connection between the Sun Ray 2 client and the Windows XP VM. The USB ports on the Sun Ray 2 appear to do nothing when I am connected to my Windows XP VM. I then noticed that the Windows XP VM running under VMWARE ESXi had no USB controller (USB Root Hub) because ESX does not support USB. When installing Windows XP under ESX the USB files are not even copied over because it doesn't detect any USB hardware. Several people commented in the past that USB should work with Sun Ray 2 clients connecting to Windows XP workstations running on ESX because the USB is redirected via RDP and has nothing to do with ESX. If a Windows XP VM running under ESX has no USB controller (USB Root Hub) how can local USB ports on the Sun Ray 2 client be redirected to the Virtual Machine? The funny thing is that the keyboard and mouse on the Sun Ray 2 are USB and they work fine. The printer, scanner, and digital camera I attached to the Sun Ray 2 client didn't do anything (Windows does not see it). Do I need to install anything on the Windows XP VM to make this work or is it not possible to redirect the USB ports to a VM running under ESX? Am I correct that the Sun Ray 2 client redirects USB to the local Windows XP USB controller? I should note that the Sun Solaris server (running the Sun Ray 4 Software) is also a VM under ESX. Solaris being a VM under ESX means that the Solaris Sun Ray Server also has no USB hardware/drivers installed (as ESX does not support USB). Thanks Bryan
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