I am afraid this question has been answered, but I have done many searches with no luck. It looks like USB 3.0 support works under certain Linux guests but I can find no definitive answers about W7 guest. I changed the Settings to USB 3.0 (got message about needing driver). When it did not see the USB stick I plugged in, I opened the Device Manager (guest) and saw a yellow bang on Other devices, "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller". There is no driver. I tried several ideas but none worked. Details showed the Vendor ID as 15AD (VMware) and the Device ID shows 0778 (Sabrent USB-to-Parallel Adapter). The device ID does not make much sense to me. Is there a driver available to satisfy W7 guest? Thanks and enjoy, John.
EDIT: It looks like my signature (containing VMware version information) is no longer shown in the post: Player, 6.0.1 build-1379776