posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:28 PM
by
andrewwhitten
VMWare 5.5 upgrade.. USB Issues
There are many reasons
to use VMWare and not Virtual PC. As a mobile developer, one of them is its USB support, which is a requirement when developing on a physical device.
Well, the VMWare 5.5 upgrade has just been released... and it has an issue.
I run my virtual machine under a limited user account, which is good practice for any developer. (Annoying? Maybe.. Safe? Certainly)
To use a USB device, VMWare sometimes requests to install a particular driver, which requires Administrator rights, and a 'run as..' dialog box appears to let me install it with my admin credentials.
VMWare 5.5 no longer offers this dialog box, so the only way to run USB devices is to run the virtual machine under an administrator account. This is a key advantage which VMWare has lost, and I'll certainly be interested to see if this gets fixed before the new Virtual PC comes out :)