Answering myself: After about 6 months of successful work on PICKIT2/ICD2/PIC32 starter kit among many other USB devices (including mass storage and USB/RS232 chips) I found VMWare Server 2.x working really well, mostly for being a free download. Fully recommended for those of you looking for working on isolated VM inside a host you want to keep clean, for reference a WinVista 64bits hosts nicely multiple WinXP 32bits sessions with USB hardware so far for me. VMWare USB driver layer works so well for me that in some cases is better than working on the host, for instace there are some cheap chips like HL340 for USB/RS232 which don't like WinVista 64bits, but the driver VMWare puts on the 64bits host to proxy it on the guest ignores this fact and HL340 installs just nicely on the guest even though it wouldn't work on the host. Another neat feature is the fact you can work remotely with VMWare console from a laptop, and connect/disconnect the USB device with a drop down list remotely as well, making the guest software really emulate plug-in/out USB so you don't have to physically be there to reinit the driver or simulate faulty connection. Cheers. 2009/3/2 Ariel Rocholl > Just reviving this old thread, wondering if newest VMWare under Windows > works well in your experience guys with ICD2 and/or PICKIT2 and/or PIC32 > Starter Kit. We may need to plan for new hardware soon and being VMWare a > reliable platform in terms of USB would certainly influence our approach on > how we deploy it. > > Any experience with recent VMWare versions in this regards is really > appreciated (again context is WindowsXP-guest on WindowsXP-host, I saw the > Fusion thread but looks like different context than mine) > > TIA > > 2007/12/5 Herbert Graf > > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 21:24 -0600, Matt Pobursky wrote: >> > Most of my bad experiences with VMWare were hardware related, i.e. the >> CCS >> > USB ICD PIC programmer/debugger software failed to find and control the >> ICD >> > pod, similar problems with the programming software and IDE Debugger for >> > both the USB and parallel port JTAG pods for the MSP430 family. These >> were >> > the last devices I tried about a year ago. >> >> FWIW the MChip ICD2 works wonderfully under VMWare. >> >> TTYL >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > > > > -- > Ariel Rocholl > Madrid, Spain > -- Ariel Rocholl Madrid, Spain -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist