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attaching a usb printer to hyper-v virtual machines


I have a printer that doesn't have the driver for my windows server 2008, and I tried other platform drivers but they did not work either. Hyper-V is installed in the server and I want to know if there is a way so that I could attach my printer USB device to virtual machines (that have drivers for my printer) runing in hyper-v so that i could print.


Solution

  • Hyper-V cannot redirect USB on host machine into the virtual machines. VMWare workstation/player and VirtualBox can do this. But it's not recommended to install Hyper-V hypervisor with other virtualization software on the same machine.