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dorssel / usbipd-win

Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2.
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Hyper-V guest doesn't see host-shared USB device #511

Closed Pomax closed 1 year ago

Pomax commented 1 year ago

I have a Windows 10 pro host with a Hyper-V Windows 10 pro VM client, and on the host machine I've run usbipd bind --busid=3-4 (a midi keyboard):

C:\>usbipd list
Connected:
BUSID  VID:PID    DEVICE                                                        STATE
3-1    1b1c:1b13  USB Input Device                                              Not shared
3-3    231d:011f  USB Input Device                                              Not shared
3-4    1235:0136  LKMK3 MIDI, USB Input Device                                  Shared

Persisted:
GUID                                  DEVICE

but running usbipd list in the client shows no devices:

C:\>usbipd list
Connected:
BUSID  VID:PID    DEVICE                                                        STATE

Persisted:
GUID                                  DEVICE

The networking is set to direct share of a physical network card, and both host and client can ping each other on their respective 192.168.1.* addresses, with both machines running the usbipd service.

(Note: tried turning off the windows firewall in the guest entirely, but that didn't have any effect)

dorssel commented 1 year ago

usbipd-win is only a server. You will need some other software on the Windows client side.

Pomax commented 1 year ago

Any you'd recommend? Because I ended up here after going "sorry, USB Network Gate wants $1200?", and VirtualHere not working for hyper-v

(and the readme showing how to attach suggesting that this utility could be used to do both binding on the host, and attaching on the client)

dorssel commented 1 year ago

I don't use a Window client, so I wouldn't know. There are some entries in the discussions from people that successfully got it working. In any case, this is not an issue with usbipd-win, so I'll close this.

Pomax commented 1 year ago

fair, although as a windows usbipd, it would help folks a lot to also mention which windows usbip clients folks can use in the readme, because I've been spending four days trying to find one that actually works with Hyper-V, and apparently none of them do. Which people who need a windows usbipd probably care about a lot.