MS Windows emulator or VM with USB support

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Milan Knizek wrote:

> Hello,
>
> is there an emulator or virtual machine, which would run MS Windows on FreeBSD
> as a host system and support USB devices? (I do not mean USB Mass Storage,
> but e.g. Garmin GPS device with Garmin's MapSource.)
>
> Preferrably some free software.
>
> AFAIK wine cannot support usb devices, VMware Server 1.x does runs only on
> linux.
>
> Best regards,
> Milan
>
> --
> Milan Knížek
> http://milan-knizek.net/
> e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz

Based on my experience VMware is the most complete VM that can deliver this. However, there are people working on porting Xen to FreeBSD (CURRENT I believe, not STABLE).

So stay tuned for Xen if you're interested..

-Garrett