typer77 Posted January 19, 2016 #1 Posted January 19, 2016 Hi all, Has anyone been able to connect a USB external hard disk to DSM running on a Hyper-V VM? I did some reading and the "named pipe" cannot be used as USB port passthrough. thank you!
Rusty Posted January 19, 2016 #2 Posted January 19, 2016 Not happening, Hyper-V doesn't support it. If you want that, use VMWare.
typer77 Posted January 20, 2016 Author #3 Posted January 20, 2016 In order to use VMware, I will have to get rid of Windows as the OS right? Thx Sent from my LG-H818 using Tapatalk
sbv3000 Posted January 20, 2016 #4 Posted January 20, 2016 you could run ESXi as the hypervisor and Windows as a VM on that, alongside XPE/DSM. (its even possible to run H-V within ESXi/Windows VM if you were 'crazy' enough ) If you want to keep H-V then this might work to connect the USB HDD on the network and mount the drive with the utility http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LB8XFK/r ... 9FMGYGYHQE
typer77 Posted January 20, 2016 Author #5 Posted January 20, 2016 you could run ESXi as the hypervisor and Windows as a VM on that, alongside XPE/DSM. (its even possible to run H-V within ESXi/Windows VM if you were 'crazy' enough ) If you want to keep H-V then this might work to connect the USB HDD on the network and mount the drive with the utility http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LB8XFK/r ... 9FMGYGYHQE Thank you SBV300, I will give the later a try cuz I am afraid my "important data" like photos will get all deleted along the way migrating to ESXi. Just thinking of that I guess I can attach the USB HD to a computer and mount that as a remote drive in FILE STATION.. thank you!
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