Does a Hyper-V VM work with Realsense and the USB 3.1 controller?

[JGwinner]

The documentation says not to use Oracle Virtualbox; it mentions VMWare.

I have a Hyper-V bare metal implementation on a laptop. Will the RealSense camera work in this environment?

Thanks,

== John ==

[JGwinner]

I'm using the D435, although USB issues would be present with nearly any depth camera.

[MartyG]

I don't have specific information about using RealSense 400 Series cameras with Hyper-V. The key factor seems to be whether you can get the virtual machine to access USB devices, like VMWare can. The link below discusses how to access webcams on Hyper-V, which may give some useful insights to apply to your RealSense camera.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/msonline/en-US/a11eee73-86e0-4782-b2ab-60dfd19556ab/how-to-add-webcam-to-a-hyperv-virtual-machine?forum=win10itprovirt

An alternative means of accessing RealSense cameras is via an ethernet network, with a setup such as the one described in the EtherSense project:

https://github.com/krejov100/EtherSense