manmal Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Hi, is there anyone here that is using an external firewire equipment (video capture, or soundcard) through the 1394 port of your mac inside vmware fusion (or parallels , although i doubt parallels supports it) having NATIVE drivers inside your vmachine ? I mean (for example) that you use your windows firewire drivers for your soundcard and not the mac osx ones having a "generic" soundcard inside the virtual machine. I hope my question is clear. Please post your experience using external devices inside virtual machines (vmware fusion mainly). Thanks Mal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Neither Fusion or Parallels can pass Fireeire devices to the Virtual Machine, maybe in later builds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I think you can in Fusion if you select the place to save the VM is on your FireWire drive. BTW. 2000th Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I think you can in Fusion if you select the place to save the VM is on your FireWire drive. BTW. 2000th Post I don't get it, how XP could see my FW device for connect a camera? Congrats for those fisrt 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanderx Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Here's a workaround for firewire drives: 1) Mount your drive/s on OS X 2) Launch VMWare 3) In the "Settings" menu, click on "Shared Folders" 4) Select your firewire drive as the Shared Folder and your done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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