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Hi pointman1921,

It seems that the keyboard issue has something to do with the passing through of onboard USB (i.e. of the ESXi host hardware)

In Vsphere I unchecked this option, restarted the ESXi host and voilà, USB keyboard works!

In order to have some USB port to pass through, I inserted a Delock PCI Express card 4x external USB 3.0 (NEC/Renesas chipset), which showed up fine in VSphere, but heck, this card destroyed 2 external USB drives (bothe drives were totally dead). So be careful with USB cards in ESXi. The wrong card may destroy your external hardware.

I don't count anymore how many times I had to reinstall ESXi. The slightest change (e.g. changing passthrough) made ESXi halt at the 'storage stack' when booting. Terrible.

°P.

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