This is the biggest reason that the physical dongle needs to go away. I nearly went through this with my phone server, but discovered that I could hang the device off the back of the PBX itself. I lucked out. Had that not been the case, I'd need to maintain an extra tiny server just for my call manager software. Yech.
--Matt On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joshua Penix <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 6, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> I know they have USB pass-through on many other virtualization products … >> They don’t do this on ESXi? >> I’ve done it on VMWare Workstation, Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox … but I >> guess these are all desktop products, and I never tried it on ESXi or >> XenServer. > > The desktop products you list all have the benefit of an underlying OS with > its own USB support layer. ESXi runs on bare metal, and generally does not > support USB passthrough. The exception would be ESXi 4.0 (vSphere) running > on the newest Nehalem hardware with VT-d support. > > But realize that there's not a huge amount of demand for something like USB > passthrough in a multi-server virtualized environment, because plugging > something unique into a single physical host suddenly makes all the fail-over > and redundancy built into the cluster useless for any VMs which require it. > > The approach of a network-connected USB hub is far preferable, and it looks > like that's the direction Jefferson is heading. > > -- > Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com > Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. COOKIE MONSTER: Boy, I wish I were a sysadmin so I could go to the NJ-PICC Sysadmin Conference! http://www.picconf.org _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
