Trouble connecting firewire

[jeremyjw]

Hi, all. I'm having trouble getting a firewire connection to be recognised in VMWare. I used to successfully connect my camera and download footage to a video editing package via firewire. Not sure what might have changed in the meantime. Does anyone have any ideas what setting needs changing? Many thanks!

Jeremy

[asatoran · Accepted solution]

Virtual machines do not have direct Firewire connections. You can add a virtual USB controller, but there is no virtual Firewire controller. So you can either attach your camera to the FIrewire port, and use the video editing software on your physical host (not in virtual machine) or connect your camera to USB, if available, so that the camera can be connected to the virtual USB controller.

[Silica_V]

Firewire devices are not supported in VMware Fusion.

Regards,

Silica V.

[maddymac]

VMware should consider supporting Firewire in VM in their future products, as there are many Firewire device available for Mac systems and also latest MotherBoard for Windows are coming with Firewire ports.

[asatoran]

No virtualization product has virtual Firewire AFAIK. I don't know what the technical issues are, but I remember and old post that indicated settings that implied VMWare was working on virtual Firewire. But that was over a year ago, so it would seem that it's either lower on the priority list, or the hurdles to virtual Firewire are not insignificant.