Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware

[soitjes]

Hi,

Did anyone ever tried to use the Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 on windows 7 on a virtual machine (in my case vmware) ?

After installing the driver I plug in the stick, which I see in the device list, but with an error sign. In the device properties I see : Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) But I just downloaded the driver from the Aeon Labs website.

Any idea ?

Thanks,

Soitjes.

[mhn]

Hi Soitjes.

I have tried it with Windows 7 and Virtual PC.

The host PC has the driver.

The driver makes a COM port on the host.

Found the COM port in Manage - Device Manager.

In Virtual PC settings I set up COM 1 to that physical COM port. (In my setup COM 5)

Works fine.

Regards
Morten

[soitjes]

In my case (vmware) I can't get it to work. I did like you, and only left the driver on the host. On the host it works fine, and I see the serial port in the device list (com3).

In the vmware settings I create a virtual serial port which I map on the physical port com3, but it never appears in the device list.

I tried all sorts of combinations, but the outcome is always that the serial does not show up in the device list on the guest.

Soitjes.

[mhn]

Sorry I have no experience with WMvare.

[Willem4ever]

Which version of vmware are you using ? ESXi for example has no support for USB ...

[soitjes]

I'm using vmware player. It has serial port and usb support, so it should work.

Soitjes.

[CaptNemo]

Late reply - for the records.

Works just fine on VMWare Fusion on OSX (host) running Vista or Win7.
On connecting the z-stick to OSX VMWare connects the USB to the VM. Vista or Win7 has the COM driver installed making the COM ports available in Win7/Vista.

[Snelvuur]

Works fine here with vmware server, only what i do notice is that sometimes the stick will stop blinking (this happens maybe every 3 months or so)
I have to remove the stick manually and put it back in, and it will start to blink and work again (cant restart something software based to fix this)

[rovinge]

Which version of vmware are you using ? ESXi for example has no support for USB ...

The new ESXi 5.0 hypervisor now has USB support.

I am running 2 ESXi machines with several VMs using USB printers, and one VM specifically has the Plugwise and CM13A USB devices assigned.

Works without any issues.

Roel

[Willem4ever]

Good News, allows me to switch off another noisy computer.

[Mdamen]

I use the same setup (also ESXi 5) several interfaces connected (USB)
Works fine, however when you unplug the z-stick you might see problems and have to disconnect/reconnect the stick.