Eric Sloof recently wrote about FabulaTech, which has a product called USB Over Network. This is a very nice software based client/server application that turns a PC with a USB device connected into a USB host - you can then install the client piece on your Virtual Machine to connect to the hosted USB connection.

Digi also has a product called AnywhereUSB, it pretty much does the same thing but without the need of a host machine, you plug your USB device into the AnywhereUSB appliance (very small 5 port USB hub) and install the client piece on your Virtual Machine, the connection is made over a 10/100 ethernet line.  I’ve used a couple dozen of these for software that requires a USB License Key, never having a problem with any of them.

Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips, Hyper-V

I came across a nice flash video doing a side by side comparison of the Microsoft Hyper-V install and the VMware ESXi install.  The Hyper-V install was using the Windows 2008 Core version and the ESXi was a baremetal install.  The results are not that shocking.  You can view the video by clicking here.

Happy New Year!

Posted under ESXi 3.5 Tips, Hyper-V

A very cool video was sent over to me by an employee of VMware, it shows in a demo of Hyper-V an application failure because Hyper-V did not check the CPU compatibility prior to migration.  The origin host had the SSE4.1 instruction set, the destination did not.  Once migrated the application failed and crashed.  Later in the demo it shows a vMotion attempt of the same style, the CPU compatibility checking done during the vMotion process denied it to complete.

See it for yourself: Click here to Launch

Posted under Good Reading, Hyper-V, VMware

This morning when I came into work my twitter box was flooded and there was a lot of heat distributed across the virtualization blogging world.  This all started when this post was published on the Zero’s & One’s blog site.  Almost immediately Scott Lowe and Jason Boche posted their rebuttals, along with dozens of other comments on the initial posting and even more spread across Twitter… Now I would like to chime in.

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Posted under Good Reading, Hyper-V, VMware