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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.
When it's disabled, I get this error instead:
Failed while adding virtual Ethernet switch connections. Adapter not enabled or not functional.
Is this possible, or do I need to head back to VirtualBox?
JMK
Posted 2013-10-20T16:40:02.500
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1Why are you messing around in the Virtual Switch manager if you want to attach a USB device to your VM? – Michael Hampton – 2013-10-20T17:12:54.303
@MichaelHampton This is my first time using Hyper-V, what should I be messing around with to attach a USB device? And to answer your question, I thought you may be able to expose the WiFi hardware directly to the VM, regardless of whether it was USB/PCI etc – JMK – 2013-10-20T17:24:00.097
Oh... a simple Google search turned up the fact that Hyper-V doesn't support attaching USB devices directly to virtual machines at all. – Michael Hampton – 2013-10-20T17:28:26.213
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Really? I'm seeing lots of stuff about Enhanced Session Mode which apparantly is for exactly this.
– JMK – 2013-10-20T17:37:45.097