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is it motherboard dependent or if the motherboard has a usb controller it will work
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is it motherboard dependent or if the motherboard has a usb controller it will work

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USB controller device needs to be detected by ESXi, motherboard or plugin controller.
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USB controller device needs to be detected by ESXi, motherboard or plugin controller.

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how can you work out if esx see's to usb controller
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how can you work out if esx see's to usb controller

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can vsphere 5 do usb passthrough for a usb printer to a virtual vista/win7 vm
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can vsphere 5 do usb passthrough for a usb printer to a virtual vista/win7 vm

esx 5 usb printing from a vista/win7 vm

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.