[Discuss] I need some dual-booting advice

[Rich Pieri]

I have a couple of workstations I need to get set up. The owner wants to
have both Windows and RHEL6 on them. Either dual-boot or running Windows
in a virtual machine on Linux hosts is acceptable to the owner. Both
operating systems need to be available to multiple users on the console
(not simultaneously) and if Windows is virtualized then automatic USB
pass through from the console is required.

These last two have me stumped for the best way to get these set up. My
first attempt was with KVM but USB pass through is a manual process that
has to be performed by an administrator for each device. This is not
viable. My second attempt was with a VMware workstation shared virtual
machine which I discovered the hard way doesn't do USB pass through at all.

Is there some virtalization trick that I'm missing, something that will
do a shared virtual machine with automatic USB pass through or is
dual-booting the only way to get this working?

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Rich P.