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Duncan is offline Duncan
2007-12-05 , 18:10
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Originally Posted by jethro.itt View Post
Huh? VMWare Fusion on Mac supports USB just fine, and VMWare Player does too, AFAIK. (I'm using Windows XP under VMWare to do embedded systems development and let me tell you, those applications are picky about hardware...)
Earlier versions of VMWare only supported USB 1, but the current version supports USB 2 just fine.

You do have to be careful though that you aren't running an old virtual machine: virtual machines built for VMWare 5.x won't support usb 2 even if run with a version of VMWare which does support it.
The free VMWare Player will play the old vm formats but it cannot convert them to the newer format.