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Under Windows 7 I ran iTunes in XP Mode which was great. I plugged in my iPad (1st generation) and Windows XP picked it up and synced with iTunes.

Now I have upgraded to Windows 8, and I knew that Hyper-V would replace this functionality. I created a Windows 7 virtual machine with iTunes and enabled "Other supported plug and play (pnp) devices" in Remote Desktop.

If I plug in without iTunes installed, Windows 7 downloads the driver and I can read the iPad disk contents.

If I plug in with iTunes installed, I keep getting "Driver installation failed" error.

Does anyone know how how I can get the iPad working with the guest iTunes?

(Note: No, I do not want to install VirtualBox. The point of this exercise was to remove bloat from my system!)

Indrek
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You can use this software for syncing ipad/ipod over the network or over the VM (supports Hyper-V): http://www.net-usb.com/remote-iphone-sync/

USB Network Gate allows attaching a USB device to a guest OS running on Virtual Server. All you have to do is install USB Network Gate on host OS of any computer on your network and share a USB device there. Also install USB Network Gate on guest OS of any computer on your network, where you want to use the device, and connect to a shared one! USB Network Gate provides USB passthrough to guest OS running on Virtual Server. The OS will treat this USB device as a real one and you can work with it as if it were connected directly to your Virtual Machine. NetworkGate

Harshil Mathur
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