Workstation 9: crash when attaching USB device to remote VM

[pavel-a]

Dear experts, is there any workaround?

I'm trying to attach USB flash drive to a Linux VM on ESXi server.

The Workstation crashes with message:

Workstation version 9.0.2 build 1031769, Host Win7 SP1 x64.

Otherwise,the Wks works fine with local and remote VMs. I can connect the same device to a local VM.

Following is the relevant snippet from the log.

Thanks in advance for any idea.

- Pavel

2014-01-22T20:26:59.303+02:00| vmui| I120: REM-USB: Opening device 0x807815567
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: REMDEV:RemoteDeviceConnected USB reconnecting:0
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: REM-USB: Connecting device 0x807815567
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: USB Hint: A USB device is about to be unplugged from the host and connected to this virtual machine. It will first be stopped to enable safe removal. With some devices, the host may display the message "The device can now safely be removed."
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: 
2014-01-22T20:26:59.772+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:6 len:105
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:8 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGA: device 807815567 arrived
2014-01-22T20:27:00.188+02:00| vmui| I120: USBGW: Write arbitrator op:10 len:8
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: Unhandled Win32 SEH exception
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: ----Win32 exception detected, exceptionCode 0xc0000005 (access violation)----
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: ExceptionAddress 0x6debddeb eflags 0x00010202
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: rwFlags 0 badAddr 0
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: eax 0 ebx 0x441df84 ecx 0x7731e38c
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: edx 0xcb0048 esi 0x79d0d40 edi 0x1
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: eip 0x6debddeb esp 0x1ce58c ebp 0x1ce5a4
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110: The following data was delivered with the exception:
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110:  -- 0
2014-01-22T20:27:00.418+02:00| vmui| W110:  -- 0

[pavel-a · Accepted solution]

Update: this seems to be fixed in v 9.0.3.

-- pa