This allows you to work with usb dongles that are not in physical proximity to your vm.
Usb hardware key hyper v.
In the pop up window click show options to configure your vm s future connections.
The enhanced session on hyper v is enabled but it is greyed out in the guest.
Just follow this simple procedure to make this possible.
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For access a usb device from a hyper v virtual machine go through setps.
Right click on the machine name click on hyper v settings.
Enable the allow enhanced session mode option.
Open the hyper v management console.
Hyper v host windows 2016 usb drive mounting.
Start the hyper v manager and double click the name of your virtual machine.
Open up computer management console.
Expand storage click on disk management.
I installed win 8 1 ultimate in vm using hyper v in windows 10 ent.
Once the usb storage device is offline open the hyper v manager right click on the vm that needs access to the usb device and then choose the settings command from the shortcut menu.
That may come as a shock but.
Usb redirector software solves this issue and allows you to redirect a usb dongle to hyper v virtual machines.
Hope that may help.
Please be careful here.
Mount your usb drive on hyper v physical host machine.
While the lack of usb support in hyper v is definitely a huge shortcoming it s actually by design.
As mentioned earlier direct usage of hardware license dongles is not supported for hyper v.
To allow hyper v access to attached usb devices take the following steps.
But i am not able to access the local resources like usb ports.
On the host connect your usb drive wait until you can access the drive in explorer.