USB REDIRECTOR CLIENT HOW TO
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USB REDIRECTOR CLIENT DRIVER

Create a tarball of the install directory with the kernel module compiled for your specific version of XenServer:.

Run the installer to compile the kernel module and install into the DDK:.

Download USB Redirector for Linux from :.

Log into the DDK, either at the console, or through an SSH session.

Power on the DDK VM and answer the firstboot questions.

burn the ISO to CD, insert the CD into the maching running XenCenter.

Inside the DDK ISO is the DDK virtual appliance.

Download the DDK for the version of XenServer youвЂ™re running from.

USB REDIRECTOR CLIENT DRIVER

The printer is rather old, and as a result they donвЂ™t make a driver for newer operating systems, so IвЂ™m stuck with 2003. I have XenServer 6.0.2 running on a machine, and I wanted to plug a Sony UP-D75 photo printer into the XenServer via USB and forward that device into a Windows 2003 Server VM running on the same resource pool. So, before we get into the nitty gritty, hereвЂ™s what I needed to accomplish. It does offer hope for a future implementation, but at the time I tried it the project and XenServer stars didnвЂ™t align. If memory serves, I believe I did have a bit of success with it, but using it with the specific printers I had didnвЂ™t work properly. That said, I found this solution to be the most cost effective at the time, and although I havenвЂ™t done extensive research lately, I expect it still to be very, if not the most cost effective.Д«efore someone suggests that the Open Source USB/IP Project would be more cost effective, I attempted its use after XenServer 6 was released. The Linux-based server is actually free, but you need to pay for the client side when using Windows (as in my case).

One that I found to work, and have been using for about 3 years now is USB Redirector from Incentives Pro. Early on I tried a few different implementations, but there were relatively few solutions that allowed the use of Linux as a USB over network server. This approach works, but is cost prohibitive for a very small home office deployment, which caused me to search for a cost effective software solution. One solution thatвЂ™s popular is the hardware approach used by companies like Digi. This caused me to look at other solutions. The problem is that XenServer doesnвЂ™t natively support USB passthrough of anything but mass storage devices. Since early versions of XenServer 5 IвЂ™ve wanted to run my print server as a virtual machine. Please refer to Linux documentation for further information if necessary.

USB REDIRECTOR CLIENT HOW TO

This article does not go into detail on how to use the Linux command line.

The solution has not been rigorously tested and is not supported by Citrix.

IвЂ™ve also used previous versions of usb-redirector on instances of XenServer 5.x, but will not cover their installation.

The following configuration was employed on XenServer 6 and 6.0.2.

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Standard for Azure.

Citrix Content Collaboration (ShareFile).

Usb redirector client