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In my Hyper-V presentation on Wednesday<\/a>, I said that USB support was one of the things that is missing from Hyper-V. That is correct – i.e. there is no ability to add USB devices as virtual hardware – but, in a conversation yesterday, Clive Watson<\/a> pointed out that if you connect to a virtual machine using RDP, there is the ability to access local resources – including hard drives and smart card readers.<\/p>\n

The way to do this is to use the Local Resources tab in the Remote Desktop Connection client options, where local devices and resources may be specified for connection:<\/p>\n

\"Accessing<\/p>\n

If you click more, there is the option to select smart cards, serial ports, drives and supported plug and play devices (i.e. those that support redirection). In this case, I selected the USB hard drive that was currently plugged into my computer:<\/p>\n

\"Accessing<\/p>\n

And when I connect to the virtual machine using RDP, it is listed the drive as driveletter<\/em> on localmachine<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Accessing<\/p>\n

This is really a Terminal Services (presentation virtualisation) feature – rather than something in Hyper-V – and so it is true to say that there is<\/em> no USB device support in Hyper-V for other access methods (e.g. from a virtual machine console) and that the RDP connection method is a workaround for occasional access. Microsoft see USB support as a desktop virtualisation feature and the only way that will change is if they see enough customer feedback to tell them that it’s something we need on servers too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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