doubling USB input port

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On 07/10/2012 06:02 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> On 10-07-12 13:25, Jared Norris wrote:
>> On 10 July 2012 18:08, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
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>> If it's as simple as a hard drive have you considered mounting it
>> locally in the host and then sharing it with the guest account? If not
>> it would probably be useful to know what this unnamed device is.
>>
> Jarred,
> Thanks for your reply. Yes, principally there is no difference between 
> an external drive and this device (it's a weather-station). Both plug 
> into an USB port. However, VMware (and I assume virtualbox as well) 
> needs to have exclusive rights. I have never tried it with an external 
> USB drive but for example an USB bluetooth dongle is also exclusively 
> either in use by the guest in VMware or the host and I haven't found a 
> way to double it.

<http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2005315>

> Joep
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