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I have Backtrack hosted on a Hyper-V virtual machine, and I want to give it access to my USB WiFi dongle, not just access to the network, but actually access to the hardware itself so I can scan for WiFi networks etc.

In the past I have used VirtualBox, and this has been relatively painless, but I have Windows 8.1 Pro, so thought I would give Hyper-V a go.

With the device enabled under "Network Connections" I the following error:

Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections. The Requested resource is in use.

Enabled

When it's disabled, I get this error instead:

Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections. Adapter not enabled or not functional.

Disabled

Is this possible, or do I need to head back to VirtualBox?

JMK
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Hyper-V does not support USB redirection. VMWare ESXi does from v4.1.

I personally needed USB redirection and had to use a commercial USB redirection software USB Over Network. This software works by redirecting the USB connection from the host machine (Windows 8.1) to the client (VM) over TCP/IP

Ganesh R.
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Generally, Hyper-V does not support USB redirection.

The "Enhanced Session Mode" stuff does RDP-like sharing of resources over the internal VMBus. The only combinations of OSes are Windows Server 2012 R2 on the host and Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 on the guest (probably due to how it's implemented).

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