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Forwarding USB Keyboard over VMRC

I am using VMRC 12 on a Mac and ESXi 7.0b.

I'd like to use a USB keyboard with a remote client (the keyboard is not plugged into the ESXi host).

I can forward other USB devices over VMRC but not a keyboard.

This is documented for Horizon clients and is enabled by running:

defaults write com.vmware.viewusb AllowKeyboardMouse true

How should this be enabled for VMRC?

Thanks.

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I have been able to solve this.

I edited:

~/Library/Containers/com.vmware.vmrc/Data/Library/Preferences/VMware Remote Console/preferences

and added the line:

usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE"

I restarted VMRC and now my keyboard appeared.

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I have been able to solve this.

I edited:

~/Library/Containers/com.vmware.vmrc/Data/Library/Preferences/VMware Remote Console/preferences

and added the line:

usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE"

I restarted VMRC and now my keyboard appeared.

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