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.
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We have our fingerprint device which is working properly as USB device.
Data capturing works fine with our proprietary application.
Currently we are using custom vendor USB class for driver development.
When we plug this device, this device is listed in "Universial Serial Bus Controller" catagories in Windows Device Manager.
We want to use Windows Biometric Framework for the same device to achieve Windows Biometric login.
I understand that, we need to write WBDI compitible driver but I have query related to fingerprint device hardware.
We are targeting Windows 7 and later operating systems.
Will there be any changes required in hardware to work with WBDI driver ?
I couldn´t find any information on the documentation of VMware about this topic. Any advise on where to find information on this is very appreciated.
VMware workstation, fusion and player are desktop productions that run on top of other operating systems like windows, linux and mac os. VMware ESX, ESXi run on bare metal directly. Since VMware Infrastructure 3 is built upon ESX and ESXi 3.X, it is ok for you to run workstation on top of VI3. But it should be pointed out that workstation running on VI3 won't support hardware virtualization even if your physical cpu ships with hardware virtualization solution. However, latest ESXi and even workstation support so called "nested virtualization" in non-production environment. Actually, I have a virtual ESXi 5 server that runs within my fusion 5.
Assuming that you mean that you want to run a virtualization solution (VMware Workstation) on top of another virtualization solution (VMware Infrastructure), although I'm not sure why you would want to do that instead of simply using a single virtualization solution (either Infrastructure or Workstation, depending on what your needs/goals are), I don't believe that it's blocked. To VMware Infrastructure, the guest OS that you're running Workstation on should just look like any other guest OS, albeit one that's probably using a lot of resources.
You might find someone else who is trying to accomplish the same thing in the Workstation community.
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'm going to develop mostly Django sites on a MacBook Pro and would like to use Ubuntu VMs for testing purposes.
Which product is better suited for this purpose?
Can I connect to the VM via TCP/IP (so I can have apache running on the VM and access it from Safari on my MBP)?
Thanks!
It should be possible using VMWARE FUSION. It has a good network management, and you should be able to access easily your vm via network.
I've successfully used both VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion for this. On both systems, you can set the guest up so that it has its own IP address, and connect to it via HTTP, SSH and even native file sharing, so you can mount the guest's drive as a network drive from the Mac, and vice versa. This makes it possible to do the editing on the Mac in eg Textmate, but run the server on the VM.
I can only tell you about my experiences with a Core2Quad Q6600 on VMWare Fusion 3.0. I have three boot partitions on this system (ahem yes it is a hackintosh running with the E-Fix USB).
So i can do performance measurements. I use it for sometimes very large compiler sessions. And the amazing fact was that Linux as a Guest runs without any measureable time difference on virtualised and native Linux. Windows7 on the other hand only runs with 40% on my machine and GUI is allmost non useable while the GNOME Desktop from latest Ubuntu still works fine.
Check this out. Virtual Box is free so there is nothing to loose.