Matthew
Touchdown! Greaser!
I have a lot of legacy industrial systems I have to support, and some of the older systems require Win XP-era software development kits.
I keep an XP development system for those cases, but one day it's going to fail. My main dev PC has Win 10, and I've used Hyper-V to create a Win XP virtual machine. It took a lot of trial and error to get all that up and running, but now I've run into a snag. Hyper-V doesn't pass through USB ports. So the physical PC (Win 10) has USB and the virtual PC (XP) does not. That's not normally a problem, I can transfer files to an intermediate network drive and move them around from system to system that way.
The problem is that one of the development tools for the XP products requires the use of a USB license dongle. So now I need to find a way to get the XP virtual PC to have the ability to see the physical USB device.
I don't think Hyper-V can do that, so I've been looking at some third part add-ins and possibly a different VM software instead of Hyper-V. Anybody tried this before? Any recommendations?
My current setup seems to be working pretty well, with the exception of the lack of USB pass through. I'm not sure if it's easier/better to find a third-party add-in or to use a completely different package from Hyper-V.
I keep an XP development system for those cases, but one day it's going to fail. My main dev PC has Win 10, and I've used Hyper-V to create a Win XP virtual machine. It took a lot of trial and error to get all that up and running, but now I've run into a snag. Hyper-V doesn't pass through USB ports. So the physical PC (Win 10) has USB and the virtual PC (XP) does not. That's not normally a problem, I can transfer files to an intermediate network drive and move them around from system to system that way.
The problem is that one of the development tools for the XP products requires the use of a USB license dongle. So now I need to find a way to get the XP virtual PC to have the ability to see the physical USB device.
I don't think Hyper-V can do that, so I've been looking at some third part add-ins and possibly a different VM software instead of Hyper-V. Anybody tried this before? Any recommendations?
My current setup seems to be working pretty well, with the exception of the lack of USB pass through. I'm not sure if it's easier/better to find a third-party add-in or to use a completely different package from Hyper-V.