Don't find a card reader in my laptop

[saggigo]

Dear support, 

I have a industrial Siemens laptop (called Field PG) and there's a special added devices targeted for industry devices. be quite all these added devices in the laptop are usb connected to the mother board. one of these devices is a special card reader that I don't find in my virtual machine. 

Would you please support me on telling me what should I do to find all the existing devices in my laptop?

[scott28tt]

Which VMware product does this relate to?

[saggigo]

Hi Scott, 

I am using version 16 workstation. 

[scott28tt]

Your post needs moving to the correct area, I have reported it to the moderators.

[ender_]

Is this a PC/SC (smart) card reader or memory card reader? If it's a smart card reader, and you'd like to share a smart card with a VM, there are two ways to do it – you can have VMWare emulate a card reader and access the smart card on the host, this allows the card to be used both on the host, and in guest, but may be incompatible with some cards. You can do this by selecting VM → Removable devices → Shared card reader name → Connect.

The other way is to connect the USB smart card device to the guest – in this case the card reader (and any inserted card) will not be usable in your host OS. To do this, go to VM → Removable devices → card reader name (make sure you don't select the "Shared" one) → Connect.

Note that in some laptops the card reader is only powered on when you insert a card – you can often control this in BIOS setup, but if there's no setting for this, you'll have to insert a card before you'll be able to connect the card reader to a VM.