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Windows => Virtualization => Topic started by: jominj on December 29, 2013, 07:32:06 pm

Title: How To Map A USB Drive To A Virtual Machine In Hyper-V
Post by: jominj on December 29, 2013, 07:32:06 pm

Wondering how to map a USB drive to a virtual machine in Hyper-V?

 To map a USB drive to a virtual machine in Hyper-V:

• Add a new hard drive to the virtual machine
• Log into the virtual machine’s operating system and load the Windows disk management tools
• Right click the disk you added and take the disk offline
• In Hyper-V change the properties of the virtual disk to point to the USB drive you have inserted into the Hyper-V host
• Click OK to map the USB drive to the virtual machine