Hey all;
I'm running VMware Workstation Player v12.5 on a Windows 10 Laptop.
I'm trying to get a virtual XP machine working but stumbling on this issue.
I cannot connect a USB storage device to any XP virtual machine I create.
I've tried creating 3 XP machines, 2 of them are XP professional 64 bit and 1 XP professional 32 bit, created in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client from physical machines.
Each was created to VM Workstation Payer v10 and each has been updated to the latest VMware tools in the guest.
When I look at the hardware profiles, the USB devices are displayed with the yellow exclamation mark error.
I have tried searching for updated drivers with no joy.
I've also tried setting the player USB profile to USB 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0. For 1.1 and 2.0 the results are the same, for 3.0 again, drivers cannot be found for the USB controller.
I'm not sure what else I can try. I've tired various USB storage devices from USB 2.0 stick to USB 3.0 hard disk.
Yet my USB mouse works OK!
The original machines can connect with USB ok so I'm at a total loss now and have spent HOURS trying to work around this...
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I've just tried a Virtual Windows 2000 professional - that too doesn't recognise my USB mass storage device. (Shows in Hardware manager with errors)
Tried Virtual Windows Server 2008 - doesn't recognise USB mass storage device. (Shows in Hardware manager with errors)
Tried Virtual Windows 7 Professional - doesn't recognise USB mass storage device. (Shows in Hardware manager with errors)
Is this likely to be an issue with my own laptop? If so what could it be?
Tomorrow I'm hoping to get access to another laptop to try the same things, until then, I'm stumped!
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Update: Access to another laptop with WMware Workstation Player v6.0 running on Windows 7 Professional:
When I run the same Windows XP Virtual Machine as I tried on my Laptop (and after eventually authorising windows) I could read my USB devices. But they also stopped working after a little while.
When connected to the guest and trying to view device hardware, it is so slow loading. If I disconnect the USB device, the hardware profile loads up immediately.
Absolutely baffled now as to what is going on.
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Tried a fresh re-install of everything VMware....
Created a fresh VM from the XP machine.
Still no good.
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Spent enough time now trying to resolve this and need to get on with it... so I set the USB drive up as a shared folder between Host and Guest, slow but at least I can now transfer files over.
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Message was edited by: Mark Lee