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Hyper-V 2008 will not do it. &nbsp;Hyper-V 2012 R2 MIGHT do it. &nbsp;VMWare I MIGHT do it. &nbsp;it really depends on the device and how exactly it works. &nbsp;You can also look at USB over ethernet devices.<br />
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One idea that might help:<br />
<a href="http://www.usb-over-ethernet.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.usb-over-ethernet.com/</a>
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Hyper-V 2008 will not do it.  Hyper-V 2012 R2 MIGHT do it.  VMWare I MIGHT do it.  it really depends on the device and how exactly it works.  You can also look at USB over ethernet devices.

One idea that might help:
http://www.usb-over-ethernet.com/ [http://www.usb-over-ethernet.com/]

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I have an interesting situation:<br />
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I have an old windows 2003 server that has an application that uses a USB product serial number, without that USB key plugged in to the back of the server, the software application will not work.<br />
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problem is the windows 2003 server is having hardware problems and I tried to virtualize it and was successful. problem is that the program won't run because it doesn't detect the USB key.<br />
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is there any way, to make the VM (windows 2008 R2, running hyper V) detect the USB key?<br />
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if hyperV won't do it, will VMWARE?<br />
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would I be able to move the OS to the NEW server (physical to physical). probably not right due to the drivers???
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I have an interesting situation:

I have an old windows 2003 server that has an application that uses a USB product serial number, without that USB key plugged in to the back of the server, the software application will not work.

problem is the windows 2003 server is having hardware problems and I tried to virtualize it and was successful. problem is that the program won't run because it doesn't detect the USB key.

is there any way, to make the VM (windows 2008 R2, running hyper V) detect the USB key?

if hyperV won't do it, will VMWARE?

would I be able to move the OS to the NEW server (physical to physical). probably not right due to the drivers???

USB software product license on VM hyper v

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

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.

VMware

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.