jonUF02's Posts

Sounds good, that was going to be my next step; ditch the onboard USB 3.0 and go for the PCI card. I need to find one that I can plug in the front panel cable to the board, everything should work out then. I was just trying to work without spending any more, but those cards don't cost too much.

I am having the same problem with my home lab. I have tried everything I can find online and think of. I cannot pass through KB or Mouse connected to the host USB ports. When I go to add devices through the VM settings, it shows no USB devices available, although I have both plugged into the host USB ports. I have successfully passed through a flash drive on one of the host ports. I can pass through the USB 3.0 controller (pci device) from the motherboard, but I get the Code 10 driver errors in my Guest machine, even after installing the proper driver from the original disk. The DVD drive and PCI video card are passed through successfully. I am booting ESXi 5.5 from USB, and the USB KB works on the yellow/black screen just fine. Guest is Windows 7 Pro x64. Motherboard is Gigabyte 970A-UD3P. I'm wondering if this is just an issue of ESXi not having the drivers to support the physical USB ports? I also get errors when trying to pass through any USB (storage) devices from the vSphere Client window. It sees the storage devices, and tries to connect, then stops with error. Any help would be appreciated. My goal is to have the video passed through (done!) with a local KB and Mouse, then use the VM as a work station while running other VMs in the background.