In need to allow a Printer to

[SayCheeze]

be accessible to a VM. Been playing with VM's for a year or so now. I actually have a real world use for one now.

The Proxmox Server is sitting in my main building. It's running 8.0.3. I have a workstation in our 2nd building that has an EPSON L1800 attached to it. I need to passthrough or let the VM running on the proxmox server be able to see it, and let the application to print to it. That PC is connecting to the VM via remote desktop over our VPN between the 2 buildings. When I run the command LSUSB from the shell module on the proxmox server I see this.

Linux proxmox 6.2.16-3-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PVE 6.2.16-3 (2023-06-17T05:58Z) x86_64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Tue Oct 1 11:09:41 CDT 2024 on pts/0
root@proxmox:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ58/M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard SK-8115
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0624:0249 Avocent Corp. Virtual Keyboard/Mouse
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:a001 Dell Computer Corp. Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

When I try to add a USB Device, I only ever see 3 devices. The Epson L1800 printer never shows up to be able to ADD. I think the 3 only options are available to add are devices on the Proxmox Server. I'm sure there is a way, but I can't find it...

Can someone dumb down to me the way I can add USB device to my VM that is actually attached to a physical machine?

TIA

 

[VictorSTS]

If you want to print while in the RDP session you don't need to map anything in PVE nor in the VM, just use RDP functionality to map the local printer connected to the PC in the RDP session of the VM.

If you want to map a USB device to a VM, that device has to be connected to the PVE host.

 

[SayCheeze]

Thanks... I'm not sure exactly how to use the RDP functionality to map the local printer, but I'll youtube it to see how it's done.

 

[SayCheeze]

Appreciate your help.
We finally have it printing, at least through the VM to that printer. We still can't get the app to print, but that's something entirely something else.

Thankx