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Subject: Fax Support with HyperV'd SBS2008
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8/24/2008 04:39 PM  
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to use the fax service when running SBS2008 in a hyperV VM?  Is some sort of "network serial" or "network usb" device emulation the only available option?  If so, any recommendations on a reasonably priced product?
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9/11/2008 09:01 PM  
I have never heard of such devices but you maybe able to use Internet based faxing.
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Posted By Mike Wilhelm on 8/24/2008 04:39 PM
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to use the fax service when running SBS2008 in a hyperV VM?  Is some sort of "network serial" or "network usb" device emulation the only available option?  If so, any recommendations on a reasonably priced product?
is the faxing not working inside of hyperv? 
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9/13/2008 05:37 AM  

There's no hardware support in a virtual machine for PCI devices...so the virtual machine can't use the fax card.
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9/14/2008 01:43 AM  
that can't be right. At least in Xen(linux hypervisor) i've often used pci 10/100 cards inside the vm's. Is it MS's hypervisor that isn't pci compliant?
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9/14/2008 06:20 PM  
It appears so.
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9/14/2008 09:38 PM  
try using hte free vmware esxi hypervisor(it's free too). This should be an interesting one to take a look at.
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9/14/2008 09:40 PM  
Posted By Mike Wilhelm on 8/24/2008 04:39 PM
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to use the fax service when running SBS2008 in a hyperV VM?  Is some sort of "network serial" or "network usb" device emulation the only available option?  If so, any recommendations on a reasonably priced product?
I wonder would an external usb faxmodem work? 
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10/22/2008 11:08 PM  
Just wondering if anyone has found a working fax solution to this? A USB fax modem seems a good option, though don't most of these still 'appear' on a serial port?
Seems USB isn't an issue for backups (though I do have speed concerns at how fast these devices work?)

Looking to HyperV SBS 2008 standard along side another 2008 VM running as a TS box. But fax and SBS backup are necessity. I find it amazing MS is happy to point out the Hyper-V scenarios with SBS 2008 yet offers no solutions to keep the advertised 'features' of SBS operational.
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10/24/2008 07:14 AM  
It's serial over usb..the usb interface is the transport and that's what the windows machine uses.  USB will work as fast as the bus contention and cpu usage allow you to..if your usb 2.0 isn't hammered and your system cpu's aren't being nailed you'll get the most speed your usb device will actually handle.
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11/20/2008 11:13 AM  
try this

works perfectly with sbs 2008 fax services in a hyper v environment

http://www.serial-port-communication.com/virtualmodempro/

u may need to port ur fax number to a sip provider also if you want to keep the same fax number
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