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Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:54 pm
by 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.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:34 am
by 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
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:28 pm
by 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.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:38 pm
by mhn
Sorry I have no experience with WMvare.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:41 am
by Willem4ever
Which version of vmware are you using ? ESXi for example has no support for USB ...
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:06 am
by soitjes
I'm using vmware player. It has serial port and usb support, so it should work.
Soitjes.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:36 pm
by 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.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:37 pm
by 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)
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:07 am
by rovinge
Willem4ever wrote: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
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:23 pm
by Willem4ever
Good News, allows me to switch off another noisy computer.
Re: Aeon Labs Z-Stick S2 and vmware
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:33 pm
by 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.