Using Flash Drive and External HD

[vipes27]

I have an external hard drive and flash drive that I'm trying to use on one of our Windows virtual machines. Is there something I need to do for the vm to recognize that something's plugged into the USB drive? I've got it plugged in but it's not showing up.

Thanks.

[Nikhil_Patwa · Accepted solution]

Hi,

ESXi 4.1 supports USB and all you need to do is add USB controller to your VM that will allow USB devices to get detected. Follow the article below

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102229...

A single USB drive can be detected on 1 VM only and not on multiple VMs at the same time.

Hope the information is useful.

Nikhil

[vipes27]

Perfect. Thank you very much.