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RBock
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Mounting USB flash thumb drive to guest.

On my Dell 7010 and running ESXI client to connect to ESXI 5.5 host. I have a guest running and can't connect a USB flash drive when the quest is powered on. I install a USB 3.0 express card by Renesas Electronics USB host adapter and load the windows driver.   Windows can see a USB flash drive with no problem just not ESXI quest or any of my other USB ports, from the card or mother board etc. But on a different Dell OptiPlex machine this works ok. Same version windows 7 and same client vSphere client version. Just different Dell machine 780 vs 7010.

any ideas

Roy

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parmarr
VMware Employee
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See if the details here help USB drives not detected

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
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