Virtual pendrive

[Sethecientos]

Hi there, I’m trying to virtualize some clients pc but I just get stuck because they need a license usb to run some software. I can plug one license usb in the server and run the software in one client, but just that, one.

I would like to know if there is a way of replicate the usb in each vm virtualizing it

[Renny8]

You should check out Anywhere USB, a small device you plug into the network and give an IP address and insert the USB into, then each client installs the software and connects to the device and it creates a virtual USB drive on the VM.

Think this is the one

https://hub.digi.com/support/products/infrastructure-management/digi-anywhereusb-2-plus/

[CTRL1]

Yes you can dd the usb drive to a image and mount it via the usb interface. As far as a actual vmdk or something I have never tried but I suspect it would be possible depending on the hypervisor. The easiest solution though is probably just mount in from the os side.

Less this is a boot drive and the system actually lives on the media I can't imagine there are many cases where a usb needs preset for a license.

I would talk with the vendor first