Re: USB with Sun Virtual Desktop Access / xVM VirtualBox RDP

Hi Volker,
USB redirection will work with both VRDP and WinRDP on VDI 3.1 EA release which will be available this week.
It requires SunRay USB driver for windows which will be the part of SRWC EA release and so will be of VDI also.
The steps to do this will be available in the docs,I will post the link here after the EA release and Doc completion.
Thanks
--Chirag

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