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nweaver

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Currently about to rebuild the home box. I have Windows on it right now (XP Pro, SP2). The biggest problem with moving to linux is my HP S20 scanner has no linux support that I can find anywhere (really snazzy film scanner). If I install Debian, and buy a VMWare license, can I put windows on a VM and assign that USB port to the VM box, so I can scan without dual booting?
 
Theoretically I think you can. I've only used the usb passthrough with a windows host OS under linux and windows VMs. VMware just needed to be in the foreground on windows when you plugged the usb device in and it would detect it properly. It's only usb 1.1 I believe but that should be ok unless you do pretty high res scans regularly.

Gaidin

Edit: the exact vmware statement if you have the USB controller added to your VM (it is by default) is "Automatically connect new USB devices to this virtual machine when it has focus."
 
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