Long story short but I accidentally unplugged my two external hard drives from my Mac while running a Windows XP virtual machine. Before this happened, the drives worked reliably on my Mac and on my VM and I never had any problem (I use a hub - but see below that's not the problem).
Now each time I plug them in, they are correctly read by my Mac (and by another PC), but in the VM I get an error message stating that the device is unable to connect to its ideal host, as below:
The USB device is not recognized, as below:
and:
I spent about 6 hours trying to fix this problem to no avail; here is more info below:
Points #8 and #9 above make me think this may be tied to MacOS? Yet if so, how come the drives work flawlessly when used directly on the Mac instead of on the VM (they work flawlessly either plugged into the Mac directly or via the hub)?
PS: these are the USB services that are running:
Please help!
Hi,
Can you try the solution provided in this post?
USB devices no longer recognised on VMWare Fusion 10
Note that it has a very (VERY) weird workflow for allowing the USB kernel extension.
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Wil
Thank you for this.
Not sure what 'open but do not run' a VM means? It means selecting it by just clicking on it? In the VMWare Fusion Library view?
Anyway I tried this several times (do I have to uninstall Fusion and re-install?) but I never had an 'allow' button in the Privacy panel. So it's a No Go for me.
Hi,
The way I read that is by using the menu "File -> Open"
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Wil
Thanks for the further information. Unfortunately that did not work.
I however managed to copy one of my VM (remember, I have two VM showing the same problem) to a colleague's computer, on another instance of VMWare Fusion, and the problem was still present!
That makes me conclude:
As I wrote before, I tried the "remove USB Controller" from the USB & Bluetooth settings in the VM's Settings panel (in Fusion), and re-add the USB Controller, and that did not work. Is there anything else I could do, in the VM package, to completely reset USB for the storage devices?
HALP!