Hi Guys!
I'm new here & below are my problem.
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As of 24th, I'm using PARALLELS DESKTOP 7 but due to RETINA display issue, I've purchased VMWare as they declared RETINA & USB 3.0 support as well as Window 7 & 8. Yes! it does supprt RETINA & do value their effort.
But my major issue here is USB 3.0 seems totally not supported & VMWare support is quite incredible as there's no reply at all.
By looking at the previous threads & KB, this USB 3.0 issue was existed since VM version 3 & SUPRISINGLY......!!!!! still there on VMWare 5..???
I used to deal with PARALLEL tech support via call centre & chart. Impressively they're 24 hrs available & they dare to admit that PARALLEL DESKTOP 7 is not RETINA support but VMWare...???
Does anyone experienced the same issue then... pls... pls... let me know as my all my DATAs are on external HDDs & I'm using on both MAC & Window.
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I'm running a 16 GB rMBP as well and have no issues with my Seagate passport 750 gb usb 3.0 hdd. I'm using it with both win7 and win8 along with nested esx servers. I haven't seen any of the issues you are seeing.
Fusion 5 does only support USB 3.0 with Windows 8, please see here:
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html
// Linjo
Mine is "Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive 1 TB" (Link: http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/standard/backup-plus/). Do you think there's any issue with above model...
As I mentioned in my initial discussion, all my external HDDs are working fine with Mac OX X Lion & 64 bits Window 7 Ultimate edition. No additional USB driver or controller require... Why it's not working with Window 7 on VMWare fusion.
Thank! I saw that as well but it didn't say Fusion 5 doesn't support USB 3.0 but it does say something confusing like "1Microsoft Windows 8 required for USB 3 support."
Am I correct?
Why is that confusing?
It's pretty clear. To use USB 3.0 in a Fusion 5 guest, the guest must be Windows 8.
Simply not supported for Windows 7.
Ok, so I understand that USB 3 is only supported via Windows 8 in Fusion 5.
So it's not even possible to run my USB 3 HDD in USB 2 mode to work in Windows 7? It's this that's confusing me ...
Please forgive my ignorance. Thanks in advance.
Hi Guys!
Don't waste your time any more!
Below is the feedback fm VM & attached is the screen shot showing that Window 7 supports USB 3.0 & you can connect USB 3.0 in your virtual mchine.
But! the catch is you need to use "Parallel Desktop", either Parallel (7) or (8)....:smileylaugh:
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Hello Nyi,
Thank you for your response.
Please find below the details required.
1) Windows 7 Guests are not supported with USB 3.0.
2) No,installing additional driver wouldn't work
Here i would suggest you to share the USB 3.0 drive as a mac-mounted volume and then map as as network drive in the VM
Steps:
1) Launch VMware Fusion
2) Start Virtual Machine(Windows)
3) Go to virtual machine from menu bar--> settings
4) Click on sharing -> Make sure shared folder is on
5) Click on + and add the drive --> this will map on Virtual machine
Please find below some more information
USB 3.0 support works only for OS that comes with USB 3.0 drivers.
Which are Windows 8 and the recent Linux OSes.
Microsoft hasn't provided USB 3.0 drivers in Windows 7.
So no USB 3.0 support for Windows 7.
Please feel free to revert back for any questions
Thanks,
Girish
Technical Support Engineer – Desktop
Global Support Services, VMware Inc.
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So, why does the same USB3 drive work just fine when connected directly to a Windows 7 machine (not Mac/Fusion)? VM's answer is unacceptable.
I agree naderz, VMware's answer is unacceptable.
I've converted to Parallels. USB3 works fine with Windows 7 via Parallels.
Because the windows host machine has direct access to the hardware, and doesn't go through a virtualization layer.
Firewire works directly on Mac's, but not in an OSX guest for the exact same reason.
USB 3 drives can be used (slower) with Win7 in Fusion by placing a USB 2.0 hub between the device and the Mac. That'll step it back down to USB 2, which Fusion can virtualize.
I note in passing that pre-built external harddrives often have strange 'virtual CD' or other partitions in the firmware that make them rather funky - sometimes they won't even mount directly on a Mac at all!
i have the same problem. Severals USB 3.0 disk dont work in windows 7.... but Why Parallels USB 3.0 works fine and in Fusion DONT???
This is unpresentable! we are a lost vmware fusion users... this error NEED to be FIX ASAP!
As has been answered earlier in the thread, Windows 7 doesn't support 3.0 devices natively. There are third-party hacks and drivers, but nothing official from Microsoft, so that's why they don't work. If you put a USB 2.0 hub between the device and the computer, then they drop back to USB 2.0 mode and work just fine.
Say that Windows 7 don't support USB 3.0 is the same to say that dont support the new Nvidia Graphic Card... Is all Drivers!!! and if don't exist drivers in Vmware for USB 3.0 in Windows 7 is a VMWARE PROBLEM... USB 3.0 is only hardware.. and the hardware need to be handle by a driver.
OR why in Parallels under Windows 7 the USB 3.0 works???
is a Driver problem... but vmware is so lazy that do not want to do!
No it's not. Call Redmond. Microsoft doesn't support USB 3.0 in Windows 7.
manuelmoreno wrote:
OR why in Parallels under Windows 7 the USB 3.0 works???
It just clicked. Parallels must've built their own custom USB 3 driver for USB 3 HDDs to work with Parallels 8.
But what everyone's saying is true: Windows 7 doesn't support USB3 natively.
Windows 8 does. Which would be why VMware Fusion 5 + Windows 7 = included USB 3 support.
laughinman1 wrote
It just clicked. Parallels must've built their own custom USB 3 driver for USB 3 HDDs to work with Parallels 8.
That seems unlikely.
More likely is that they have Windows 7 install a USB 3.0 driver, like one from Intel
Hi everyone
I ran into the exactly same problem. Just to be sure that I got everything right:
On my MacBook Air mid 2013 I've installed VMWare 5 running Windows 7 Ultimate.
It's not possible to connect a USB 3.0 hd to Windows 7 which is plugged into the USB 3.0 port of my MacBook Air? Not even if in the VMWare Fusion settings "USB 2.0" is given?
Have a nice day.
Best wishes, Philipp
@philippx You need to use a USB 2.0 Hub in this use case scenario.