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from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-02-23 09:22:28
subject: Re: MS VirtualPC is now a freebie

From: "Robert Comer" 

> By "no support" I'm inferring you mean "in a guest
environment".  Is that
> correct?

Yes.  Things like USB disks, Keyboards, and Mice, are passed through as
emulated devices...

USB flash drives and real disk partitions can only be used via shared
folders or normal networking shares.

--
Bob Comer





"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> By "no support" I'm inferring you mean "in a guest
environment".  Is that
> correct?
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:13:32 -0500, Robert Comer 
> wrote:
>
>>> Unfortunately unlike VMware and Parallels VirtualPCs usb support is
>>> still
>>> suposedly a bit sucky/non-existent
>>
>> There's no support for USB in VPC. (Keyboards and mice are emulated in
>> the
>> VM as PS2 devices.)
>>
>>> Maybe they'll include it in VPC 2010
>>
>> We'll see...
>>
>

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