I'd like to access a set (4-8) on premise microcontrollers over USB from Azure VM (Windows 10).
It must support USB to serial, since the VM development environment should be able to upload the compiled firmware onto the on premise microcontroller, like Intel Edison and Telnet or SSH into it as well.
It could be a software or hardware solution. What my options are?
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I use Dragon dictation software including by using it over a remote access to my home computer. I also once had it set up on the network server computer at a client site which I could also access when logged in remotely. But now, I have a situation where my access to work info is over Amazon WorkSpaces. Does anyone know if Dragon Pro can be installed on and accessed through an Amazon WorkSpace desktop?
TIA!!
Your question was bugging me for a long time, finally I gave in and rented a WorkSpace and tried Dragon.
Recognition for me is totally fine as long as your local computer's standard audio input device is actually the one you want to use Dragon with. If your default input device is the built-in micro of your laptop, computer or screen, recognition will most likely be bad. I used a Sennheiser MB Pro 2 with a USB dongle on a Windows machine for testing, as well as a TravelMike with a USB MultiAdapter. Both work fine.
As for factors that influence recognition quality:
I know from other virtualization/remote desktop solutions that the codec that transfers your speech to the virtual/remote machine may work well for one microphone, and not for others. Try a different mike and see if that improves your recognition.
In order to rule out microphone issues, I suggest trying different internet connections (WiFi, Ethernet, tethering, different internet providers). Missing words from speech recognition over remote connections can indicate unstable or slow internet.
As far as I know, there is no way to patch a USB device through to the remote WorkSpaces machine. What you could try is install a VPN on the remote machine and use your smartphone as a remote microphone in Dragon. Your smartphone also needs the VPN. If you get that to work, recognition should be as good as on your local network, given that internet connection is fast and stable enough.
I'm learning some WiFi security stuff, and I have installed Ubuntu in my VMWare Workstation 11 environment. My host OS is Windows 7 which is connected to my home network over Wifi
Now what I need is in the guest OS (i.e. Ubuntu), I should be able to enable Wireless access (so that I can run Wifi network scans etc). I bridged my network and laso used NAT, both of which give me access to my home network via my Host but they appear as wired connections in Ubuntu. As I understand, this is only possible by using a USB WiFi dongle.
I have purchased a USB WiFi dongle now (it should arrive in a couple of days), but I'm not sure how can I get my Ubuntu guest OS to use that USB Wifi adapter while keeping my Host OS on the built-in Wifi adapter.
Do I simple plug in the USB network adapter into my laptop and it will be recognised in Ubuntu or do I need to make some settings in VMware?
Thanks in advance
I got this to work, posting my answer for posterity
I bought a TP Link WN823N USB Wifi adapter.
1) Keep your host Wifi on. Plug in the USB, let it download the drivers
2) Once installed, power on your VM
3) Open VMWare, right click on your VM -> Removable Devices
Here you should see your USB adapter. Select Connect (Disconnect from Host). This will now connect the USB Wifi adapter to your Linux VM and viola - it should just work!
Essentially what this does is the WiFi adapter will be connected to the VM and disconnected from the host, and the host can continue to use the built-in WiFi.
I recently got a new Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop at work and I installed the trial version of VMware Workstation 7.1 and setup two guest OS'es - Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Professional both of which are 64 bit.
The guest VMs CANNOT ping the host OS when Vmnet0 bridging is set to automatic or exclusively bound to the wireless adapter (under virtual network editor). However the Host system can ping and access guest VM admin shares under this setup.
Now when vmnet0 is bridged to the ethernet adapter exclusively, the guest VMs are able to connect to host OS.
Until recently i have been using VMware server 2.0 installed on Windows XP (host OS) laptop with two guest OS, Win XP and Win 2003 (32 bit) and vmnet0 bridging was set to "bridged to an automatically chosen adapter". I never had any issues with the VMs connecting with host when i was connected to the network via ethernet or wireless adapter.
According to VMware, wireless adapter bridging is supported from v4.0. Is there any thing that needs to be configured on the wireless adapter in Windows 7 or in Vmware workstation to make bridging work successfully from guest to host as well?
Wireless adapter model is - intel centrino ultimate N6300.
Since you don't have an answer yet, I'll try suggesting something a little off the wall...
Does your wireless access point have station isolation turned on? This feature of APs restricts wifi clients from talking to each other. They can only talk to the AP and then on to the wired connection of the AP. I've seen more and more corporate environments turning this on.
I want to run software that is protected with a dongle on a cloud instance, for example EC2. I am NOT trying to circumvent the protection, but would like to set up a tunnel between a physical machine to which the dongle is connected and the USB driver in the cloud instance.
The software is built for Windows but runs well under Linux and Mac OS using Wine so from both sides running linux would be OK.
Would this be possible without writing a USB driver?
If yes, how do I set this up?
If not, how would I go about? I am a professional C/C++ developer but have no experience with driver development.
I would start by investigating existing commercial products that do this, such as (first search hit, no special endorsement or uniqueness implied) USB over Network. They seem to solve almost exactly this problem, but for Windows clients.
On the Linux-specific side, we have USB/IP which seems to be an open source project to implement sharing of USB devices over IP networks. Again, no endorsement, I don't know how mature this project is but it seems to be the obvious starting point, perhaps you can even contribute?
I have a GPS device and its driver for Windows XP. I have Windows 7 on my laptop. I have no plans for any dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
I would like to know whether hardware support for Virtualization allows device to be detected in the scenario where no driver is available on host and there is driver installed on guest ?
In general the answer is "yes", but that doesn't mean that there won't be some issue with your specific case.
The virtualisation software virtualised access to the USB port, not the higher level, device specific protocol. I have used this to successfully use, for example, CAN networking hardware in a guest that was not supported by the host operating system.
The question probably belongs on Superuser, but I don't go there.