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[-] VoxX@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

You can connect VMs to physical ports. We use a Win XP VM to connect through a USB to serial converter to get data from devices 30+ years old. You can make and use backups because the VM can run the original software.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

Some lab equip has proprietary ports that would need reverse engineering to make and use a USB adapter.

[-] Dragnmn@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair, I read virtualize as "cloud/hardware far away" and not "local physical machine with a VM on it".

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