VM fusion & firewire

I have a lacie external fire wire drive i use to hold windows programs, works great through boot camp, anyone know if i can use it through VM fusion? so far, i dont know enough about it to configure it to work.

Hi huck31,
sad to say, but at the moment neither VMWare Fusion nor Parallels do support Firewire devices.
Only USB 2.0 connected devices are mostly supported and do work.
Maybe in later versions of Fusion/Parallels they will integrate Firewire support.
Stefan

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