VMware Server

[Dari]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Add a sound card in the virtual machine settings.

Hmmm. The Add and Remove options at the bottom are greyed out.

Is your VM running?

Yeah. It's running. I've been updating XP.

 

[Dari]

Nevermind. I guess it has to be turned off.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, you can't hotplug devices. I doubt XP even supports PCI hardware hotplug even on hardware that supports it.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Yea, you can't hotplug devices. I doubt XP even supports PCI hardware hotplug even on hardware that supports it.

I see the scanner I wanted to add in the VM menu. But how do I install the it in XP? When I click it, nothing happens.

 

[Nothinman]

If you added a USB controller to the VM then it should simulate a USB hotplug event as if you plugged it into a physical machine.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If you added a USB controller to the VM then it should simulate a USB hotplug event as if you plugged it into a physical machine.

How come it's not working? I see the Scanner in the VM > Removable Devices > USB Devices > Seiko Epson Scanner menu. That's it. It certainly doesn't show up in XP.

 

[Nothinman]

Are you sure nothing's claimed the scanner in the host OS? When that's happened to me VMWare's always just given me a dialog to decide whether to disconnect it from the host but that's on Linux.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Are you sure nothing's claimed the scanner in the host OS? When that's happened to me VMWare's always just given me a dialog to decide whether to disconnect it from the host but that's on Linux.

Yes. It's in my Device Manager with a question mark next to it. Do I just delete it?

 

[Nothinman]

I really can't say, my use of VMWare on Windows is pretty limited and when I do it on Linux it just prompts me to disconnect the device from the host and give it to the guest.