Printing from host AND guest

[DrRog]

Hello,

Have a XP computer with USB printer, running an XP VM which uses that printer and shares it with 3 other VM computers in a network.
Question is: When the VM is running on the computer which physically is attached to the printer how can the user print from the VM AND the host OS?

[socratis]

It seems like you went a little backwards. Why don't you use the printer directly in the host and share it via a network share with the 3 XP computers AND the VM.

[DrRog]

Because the network is a sealed network, and the user need internet access and company policy is internet access and the main network are to be kept separate...

Hence the idea of running the company network access in a VM allowing the user the have internet access on the host

[BillG]

And you don't think that is breaching company policy?

[DrRog]

No, the virtual machine is an isolated program invisible to external threats it its the logical choice