Using USB devices with a VM and ESXi

[AMD_Gamer]

I learned how to use USB devices with your ESXi host/VM today. Very convenient. My boss needed some old files from a drive that we used with an older Buffalo TeraStation NAS that used the XFS file system. So i made a Ubuntu VM then added the USB controller and then added the USB device after it was attached to the host and it worked perfectly.

It would be cool if you could use USB devices remotely like have the vCenter Server/Client somehow use the USB device on the machine you are working from instead of having to attach the USB device to the physical host. I think that is how it works with remote FX?

 

[lopoetve]

It's an oft-requested feature, and VMware engineering is well aware of it

Suffice it to say, I'd expect to see it at some point