How to connect usb device to virtual machine, using Hyper-V

Question

Hello,

I'm Andrea. I have to use Ubuntu 22.04 as a virtual machine in Hyper-V. I want to connect an USB device, GeoMagic Touch, an haptic robot. If I connect and I use this robot with Windows, it works, but if I want to use this robot in the virtual machine, Ubuntu 22.04, it doesn't work, because Ubuntu can't see this USB device. Infact, if I run GeoMagic's driver, it can't see the robot and if I run this command in the terminal: "lsusb", it doesn't return me anything.

I'm using Windows 11.

How I can solve this problem?

Best regards,

Andrea.

***Move from Windows / Windows 11 / Devices and drivers***

Answer 1

Hi Andrea Cusinato,

Unfortunately, it is not supported to pass through USB devices to VMs in Hyper-V. USB devices can only be redirected to VMs through Enhanced Session / RDP. You need to check to see if the USB device works normally when it's redirected to the VM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/enhanced-session-mode

Since it's an Ubuntu VM you can give a try to xrdp.

https://4sysops.com/archives/activate-enhanced-session-mode-for-ubuntu-vms-in-hyper-v

Answer 2

Ok, understood. I tried but it doesn't work.

Why in hyper-v is not supported to pass through USB devices to a virtual machine?

Thank you for your reply!