Hey, sorry to revive an old thread but I'm trying to do this exact thing and I'm having problems getting this to work using ESXi 6.7 (VM version 14) with a vm hosted on vSphere.
I've edited the vmx file as listed above to add a usb drive:
And upon boot it added:
But then I also noticed it added:
When the machine hit windows I was unable to see the drives. Is there anything else needed to make this work?
Did you actually create "genericdiskname.vmdk" first?
Yeah, the vmdk exists. I created it and then formatted it NTFS with the VMs diskmgmt console and mounted it as a regular disk drive first to make sure the image was functional.
I then just moved it to ehci.
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Just go to Disk Management and add a drive letter to the newly added drive