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tonyt1
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USB external drive pass through not working

Tried passing through an external USB disk drive, does not show up in the guest os.

Tried an 8GB flash drive, it did show up on lsblk.

Anyone know how I can pass through a USB external drive so that I can access it in the vm?

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ColoradoMarmot
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Need more details - presume you're on an M1 machine and using the preview.  On big sur or a monterey beta?  What's the guest OS?  And what kind of USB drive is it  - 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 etc.

 

FWIW, unless something's change from 12, 3.2 isn't virtualized.

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tonyt1
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thanks for the reply.

running on m1 macbook air, big sur 11.6

tried on ubuntu 64 bit arm server and alpine linux arm guest OSes

vmware fusion preview for m1 mac

seagate external usb drive, usb 3.0

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