Don’t understand me wrong, it would be great if it just works in a VM, but:
Anyone should know, that hardware, even if it’s “just” USB, might not work correctly in a VM.
Also, I’d like to point out that on the task tracker this has the most votes. So please listen to your user base who wants this resolved and fix this problem.
To be honest, I am not so disappointed by this version. I do not have bugs and the system is quite reliable. The only things I regret are bad network management (a lot of hidden things are made by the operating system and are difficult to hand tune).
I am used to work on linux, mac os and solaris and if have the choice, I would prefer linux or mac OS.