Certain USB Devices no longer recognized when plugged in after upgrade to Fusion 7

[michin1]

After upgrading from Fusion 6 to 7, certain USB devices, specifically webcams no longer prompt to connect to Windows(guest) or Host(osx). 

They also no longer show up in USB & Bluetooth settings under Virtual Machine.  Anyone else seeing this issue?  Trying figure this out, I completely uninstalled Fusion to try and fix this.  The webcams work fine in OSX by itself and are usable.

[mudaltsov · Accepted solution]

Fusion 7 supports a virtual USB camera, which can be added as a new device in the VM Settings. This allows the physical camera (USB or built-in PCIe FaceTime HD) to be shared by the host and the VM at the same time.

Currently there is no option in the VM Settings to un-hide USB cameras for passthrough to the VM, but it can be done with a preference.

Edit the file ~/Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/preferences and add the following line:

vusbcamera.passthrough = "TRUE"

[Dobinb]

I have a similar problem with a Rainbow USB Superpro (a USB security dongle).

It worked fine with Windows 8 and Fusion 6.

Now, with Fusion 7, Windows 8 recognises it OK, but the related software is not to able to see it.

UPDATE.  Fixed by uninstalling the drivers, rebooting, reinstalling the same drivers.  Strange!

[alexwei]

Dear Mudaltsov,

do you have a similar solution for Fusion 10 with Windows 10?

Thanks a lot, Alex