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That’s it! The functionality and contents of any USB device connected to the host machine or a server is accessible to you. It will be displayed on your virtual machine as if you plugged it directly in your machine.

Search for the device and connect to it.

Install USB Network Gate on the virtual machine.

Install it on the host OS, plug in the device and share it.

Download USB Network Gate on a machine to which you will connect a USB device, a server, for example.

There is no need to worry though, there is special software that helps you solve the problem. Only the latest versions of XenDesktop allow you to do it, however for the owners of the previous versions accessing USB ports is still a problem.

Till recently Citrix had no proper mechanism to work with USB devices, the virtualization software usually does not allow you to use the functionality or access the contents of the devices connected to the host machine. Special tool to work with USB devices in Citrix Virtual Environments

Use a hardware server for USB devices in Citrix Virtual Environment.

Special software to access remote USB device in Citrix Virtual Desktop.

But do not worry – there is a way to go about it, or in fact several ways: There are also devices whose drivers contain internal timeouts. These could be web-cams and security USB devices. Or as the virtualization software developers say, some devices are not designed to work in virtual environments. Thus in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) you might not be able to read the contents of a USB dongle or send a document for a printout to a multi functional device even though they are connected to your machine. However it has certain drawbacks too, one of them is having no access to USB ports on the host computer.

This technology offers a lot of advantages - secure remote access, possibility to use any device available to a user, cost minimization, etc. Virtualization software solutions such as Citrix, VMWare centralizes desktops in your company’s datacenter and delivers them to users on demand.