Hyper V machine & USB offline

[vijayg]

Hi IT People,

 

I am testing Intune on Hyper v setup. I am trying to connect a pyhsical USB to a virtual machine. it says take USB offline on you computer but i am unable to take USB offline no option for that . Any help please

 

 

Thank You.

[SpaceInvader83]

Insert the USB into your HyperV server, open disk management (DISKMGMT.MSC) right click the usb drive and select offline in the menu and then add it to the desired VM

[vijayg]

Hi

 

Thansk for the reply. I have all this setup on a Windows 10 machine not actaully using a Hypervisor box . All done virtuall on a windows 10 machine.

[Steve21]

It's the same principle on a pc too, you can't share the USB with 2 OSs at once using pass-thru (OS level), so take it offline on Win10 machine, and then it'll allow it inside the VM

 

Alternatively, if you're RDSing into the VM pass it thru as part of the client connect

 

Steve

[vijayg]

Thanks for the reply Steve. That is the problem , I am having . I am not able take the USB offline from the Windows 10 machine.

[Steve21]

What error is it giving you when you ask it to?

 

You said originally there was no option for it, but spr above said where it was so will need some more info as to what the error says etc

 

Steve

[vijayg]

I dont get an option to take USB offline. on th other drive that are attchjed there is an option to take offline.

[Steve21]

If you check in disk management what's it showing the USB as? (Basic or Removable?)

 

It sounds like you might not actually be using a disk, and removable storage etc which won't give that option (Think USB HDD vs USB flash etc)

 

Steve

[vijayg]

They are both showing as removable 16gb and 32gb?

 

Thanks

[Steve21]

Then adding them as USB disks in the VM settings isn't supported. You need to use pnp passthrough on virtual connection/RDS to get them into the VM

 

Steve

[vijayg]

Thanks Steve. I have not done this before can you explain please , what needs to be done.