Hello,
I am running a WIn XP guest on a Win 7 host in order to run a Media Center on it.
I set it up to automatically goes fullscreen on my second display, but as the second display (TV) is not on the same room, I also have a specific USB Bluetooth keyboard+mouse (Logitech DiNovo mini) that I would like to automatically connect to the VM and disconnect from the host, as soon as the VM is up.
So I added the 2 following lines in my VM config file:
* usb.autoConnect.device0 = "vid:046d pid:c71e"*
+ usb.autoConnect.device1 = "vid:046d pid:c71f"+
Unfortunately, it looks like it does not work:
Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Autoconnecting device "Logitech BT Mini-Receiver" matching pattern
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Connecting device 0x1200170046dc71e*
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USBG: Cancelling HID autoconnect:Logitech BT Mini-Receiver*
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Connecting device failed: 17*
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Autoconnecting device "Logitech BT Mini-Receiver" matching pattern *
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Connecting device 0x1200270046dc71f*
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USBG: Cancelling HID autoconnect:Logitech BT Mini-Receiver*
* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| USB: Connecting device failed: 17*
+* Sep 22 10:13:41.904: vmx| VMXVmdbLoadUsbDevices: New set of 7 USB devices* +
From what I read, I was given to understand that it is not possible to autoconnect HID devices to VM...
Is it a choice from vmware or a bug?
I wanted to uninstall the drivers of the Dinovo so the host detects it as a BT dongle (which is not a HID, right?) and then set it up in the VM, but I can't make 7 not recognize it as a HID.
Are you aware of any tricks to work around this? Is it possible to create a powershell script or something that could connect the device to the VM?
Thanks a lot!
Nathan
