USB Stick and Hyper-V VD

[BinaryBraz]

I finally have a chance to build a VDI solution for our labs. We are wanting to go with a 100% Microsoft solution for cost reasons (our site license makes it considerably cheaper). I do have one issue though. I cannot get a single USB stick to show up on the virtual desktop. I have tried to get devices to redirect from both my desktop and a Dell Wyse 5010. Both my desktop and the Wyse client see the USB stick, but the VD is not picking it up for some reason. Is this even supported by Hyper-V and RDS? If so, how do I go about making it work?

 

Current setup uses Server 2012 R2 for all roles and a Windows 10 , non persistent, collection.

Current Roles: RD Web Access, RD Gateway, RD Licensing, RD Connection Broker, Hyper-V Virtualization Host, and VMM. These roles are installed on three separate servers for test purposes.

 

I thought I knew how to do this, but I was obviously wrong. So if someone would be a hero and provide a how to, I will be ever grateful.

[mukz]

Have you changed the options in your WNOS.ini file??

 

Can you add

SessionConfig=ALL VUSB_DISKS=yes

to your wnos.ini?

Edited July 27, 2016 by mukz

[BinaryBraz]

Yep, Here is a copy of my wnos.ini. I am not sure if it is the ini file or not though. I have the same problem when using the RDP file provided by RD Web Access. So I am thinking there maybe something wrong on the server or VD side.

 

 

 

;*************************************************************
;*                                                           *
;*         This wnos.ini file was generated with the         *
;*              Configuration Generator 7.5.01               *
;*              Copyright by Thomas Moellerbernd             *
;*                                                           *
;*                 [url="http://www.technicalhelp.de"]Technicalhelp[/url]               *
;*                                                           *
;*************************************************************




;*************************************************************
;*                          General 1                        *
;*************************************************************


AdminMode=yes Admin-Username=OECFONCBOK Admin-Password=OKCGOADAKNDJKO ShowAdmin=yes


;*************************************************************
;*                          General 2                        *
;*************************************************************


DisableButton=yes
Locale=English
Reboot=yes Time=24:00-5:00 Idle=20 Wday=Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,Sunday
EnableGKey=yes


;*************************************************************
;*                          General 3                        *
;*************************************************************


Autopower=yes
AutoSignoff=yes Reboot=yes
Shutdowncounter=0 Unit=second
AddCertificate=connect.crt
SysMode=VDI toolbarclick=yes DisableAddConnection=yes


;*************************************************************
;*                         Peripherals                        *
;*************************************************************


Device=audio Mute=3 EnableSpeaker=no


;*************************************************************
;*                           Display                         *
;*************************************************************


; If you are using a version of WTOS code < 7.0.1_13 please use:
; Resolution=DDC Refresh=
Screen=1 Resolution=DDC
Screen=2 Resolution=DDC
Desktop=lockscreen.jpg Layout=Center


;*************************************************************
;*                             Time                          *
;*************************************************************


Timeserver=Timeserver Timeformat="12-hour format" Dateformat=dd/mm/yyyy
TimeZone='GMT - 04:00' ManualOverride=yes Daylight=yes Start=030207 End=110107 TimeZoneName="Eastern" 


;*************************************************************
;*                           Network                         *
;*************************************************************


Device=Ethernet Speed="Auto"
VDIBroker= AutoConnectList=Student
ConnectionBroker=Microsoft
SignOn=Yes
DomainList="our domain"


;*************************************************************
;*                       General Session                     *
;*************************************************************


SessionConfig=All VUSB_DISKS=yes Fullscreen=yes

[mukz]

Okay that looks fine.

 

1) are the devices ThinOS?

2) is the usb device you are trying formatted as NTFS?? If so, any chance you can try formatting a device to be fat32.

3) when you plug the usb in what does the event log say? Does the thin client acknowledge a usb has been inserted??

[BinaryBraz]

1) One is running Wyse ThinOS 8.2 and the other is running Windows 8.1

2) Each drive has been formatted as fat32

3) If I plug the USB Stick into the Wyse client and Look under Devices in System Tools, the Disk shows up as D:

[mukz]

Does it by any chance show up with vusb:idnumber has been redirected to d:?

 

I would need to check at work when servers are back up (power being redone) what my settings are on device + wnos file

[BinaryBraz]

In the log itself I see two lines

 

"Found a new 480Mbps device "Mass Storage" on port7

"D: registered, type 0xc, size 3883 MB."

 

Not much else in there relating to USB.

[mukz]

So it has picked up the usb, just isnt redirecting it over to the virtual machine. This is the same issue i had for 2 months until i kept messing with config until it worked for me. I will send you my configs as soon as all servers are up.

[BinaryBraz]

That is kind of you. I'll keep an eye out for it.