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BrianBulaw
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Camera no longer listed in Removable Devices

I've been using VMWare Workstation 12.5.7 build-5813279 for several months with no problems on My Origin-PC laptop. Physical and VM machines are running Windows 10 fully patched. Yesterday my integrated camera no longer is listed in Removable Devices so I can't select it from within any VM's. The camera works fine with applications on the physical machine. I've already tried uninstalling and re-installing VMWare Tools to no avail. How do I get the camera working again inside the VM's?

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mhampto
VMware Employee
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Hello,

Looks like there can be multiple ways to resolve this.

Take a look at: A connected USB storage device is not displayed in a Windows virtual machine (1004584) | VMware KB

Also, another post with some troubleshooting steps: Removable devices not showing: VMware Workstation 9

If not, were there any updates to the drivers for the device? It is possible, though not likely, windows is treating the camera differently.

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