USB Virtualization. USB in Virtual Environment.

Nowadays, virtualization has reached the broadest range of openness and scalability with the virtualization products and services ranging from network and desktop to server to storage. Along with this, some problems may arise which are to be solved. Every virtual environment user faces one the most problematic issues, that is USB devices usage in virtual sessions.

The next-generation technologies gave possibility to deliver and manage local USB devices in a virtual machine with USB for Virtual Environment solution (I highly recommend the one, produced by FabulaTech) which rapidly configures and deploys any USB device. Designed for Windows and Linux OS and ensuring broad device compatibility, USB for Virtual Environment is VMware, VMware ESX, Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V ready.

Here is how it works. The program comprises two parts:  Server and Client. Server side installs on the PC which USB devices are plugged in. Server side makes USB devices available over network. Client side installs on guest operating system (virtual machine). Client application allows connecting remote shared USB device.

USB for Virtual Environment has been developed to expand a virtual infrastructure and to get better control over network.

The solution is highly recommended for general users, enterprises, corporations, IT integrators, Small Office Home Office (SOHO), Educational organizations: all those, who want to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations.

Sharing USB printer

Sharing the printer with Windows traditional network sharing is not ideal. Printer status information, such as ink level, does not transmit well over traditional SMB printer sharing. A remote USB solution, on the other hand, makes the printer driver installed on my laptop behave as if the printer were directly attached. Googling for “usb network“. One thing though: I would like the software to work as a service under Windows so that the printer sharing feature could be available to remote users even before a user logs on to the main computer. I haven’t tested this yet, maybe this feature is already incorporated. Clean, clear and beaufitul interface, very simple installation, ‘just works’. My main computer runs Vista 64-bit and other remote USB drivers I tested were incompatible. This one seemed to work just fine.

You can download USB to Network and use it for free for 15 days!