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ESXi 5.5 and host USB devices.

Hi community,

I am just trying to connect a USB-HDD which is connected to the host to a guest operating system and failed!

The USB device lists via "lsusb" on the host, but I have no idea how to connect it to a guest.

I tired via "Settings" and "Add Hardware" thru the vSphere client and the USB device does not show up!

If I use the "Connect USB devices" button in vSphere client, I only can connect USB devices connected to the management station.

Is there any possibility to connect USB devices connected to the host?

Hope you can help me!

Regards,

Matthias.

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I just followed jkopp's advisory about changing th vhardware version in thread ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor Web Console .

I just switched to v9 and was able to add my host USB HDD to the guest, so if you have the same problem as myself, just switch to HW version 9 and then you are able to connect host connected USB devices!

Regards,

Matthias

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Skeesicks
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I just followed jkopp's advisory about changing th vhardware version in thread ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor Web Console .

I just switched to v9 and was able to add my host USB HDD to the guest, so if you have the same problem as myself, just switch to HW version 9 and then you are able to connect host connected USB devices!

Regards,

Matthias

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Hi Guy's

I do run the latest hardware version on all of my VM's and I have exactly the same problem.  Any other ideas that I can try?  Im able to mount the HDD on ESXi but can't seem to get them on my Windows guest OS's.

Any idea's?

Thanks in advance

Paul

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