ESXi 5.50 Passthrough for Windows 7 Constipation

[ddmprojekt]

Hello everyone,

Maybe a beginner's typical issue, but I hope you can give me a hint, well, a passthrough.

I can't access my external USB3 drive through the 'Passthrough' function. Not even simple USB passthrough works.

My current setup is:

Motherboard: Intel BIOS MKQ7710H.86A.0064.2013.1003.1058

Hypervizor: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-1331820 (the 'free' edition)

On my virtual machine (Version 😎 I have Windows 7 Pro 32bit, and there I have a problem as shown in the device manager (see screenshot)

The USB Controller cannot be installed.

My vSphere Client reports no errors (see screenshot)

But when I try to install the relevant driver, the USB3 eHC driver, Windows reports an error (see screenshot)

Windows reports that the system does not have the minimum requirements for this software.

Obviuosly I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas? ESXi sees the onboard USB (it installed from there).

But somehow I can't get things to passthrough.

Many thanks for your time and comments

[DavoudTeimouri]

Power off your virtual machine. Create snapshot or backup from that (Configuration files).

Then upgrade your virtual hardware to latest virtual hardware version. In this case, version 10.

After that, power on and check the issue.

[ddmprojekt]

Well yes,  but I read that VMs in Version 10 are not anymore manageable through the VSphere client - only through the Web interface - which I don't have, because I'm using the free version of ESXi. I'd rather not touch the VM.

Is Version 10 really necessary?

[DavoudTeimouri]

I had same experience with Pass-Through and my problem resolved by upgrading from version 7 to 9.

You can test that.

* Don't forget take backup from the virtual machine.