WINDOWS 2008 R2 Installed using Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Assisted installation using HP SmartStart CD v8.70 (latest SoftPAQ and other specific HP drivers were install as part of the process). No windows updates were downloaded and installed The driver for the Highpoint USB3 Superspeed card was installed manually, updating each unknown.
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Vmware Usb 3 Driver
I am having a tough time in getting USB 3 work with VMWare Player 12 on Windows 7.
Host – Gigabyte 880GM USB3 board with Etron USB 3 controller. AMD Athlon CPU, 12GB RAM, Windows 7 64
- Here is a blog that shows how to inject VMware drivers into your Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 VM images. It's not the whole VMware tools package, but at least gives you the pvscsi and vmxnet3 driver.
- Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Driver for VMware, - VMware Virtual Platform working on Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Device Name: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. 2K=Windows 2000, 2K3= Windows 2003, XP= Windows XP, VISTA = Windows Vista, WIN7 = Windows 7,WIN10= Windows 10 Driver name.
Guest – VMWare Player 12, Windows 7 64, 4GB RAM, USB 3 enabled in VM configuration and successfully installed the recommended Intel(R)_USB_3.0_eXtensible_Host_Controller_Driver_5.0.3.42 in Guest Windows 7
The issue is when I connect a USB 2 or USB 3 pen drive at Host USB 3 port it is just not detected in the VM at all. Only once it mysteriously appeared but when I tried to connect it gave ‘Host is using the device’ error, but then no files or even explorer window was open on host.
I even tried installing the Etron drivers in Guest but it fails.I think there’s some incompatibility between the Etron Host device and the Intel USB 3 controller driver. There’s no issue with USB 2 ports at all.What else can I try?
1 Answer
The VMware Support articleUSB 3.0 support for Windows 7 virtual machine in VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion (2128105)lists the following conditions:
- The guest VM must be defined with at least VMWare Workstation 12 compatibility
- In Settings,
USB Controller, theUSB compatibilityneeds to be set to3.0. - In the virtual machine, download and install the USB3 drivers from theIntel Download Center.
However, not all hardware configurations are supported.The most recent VMware article I have managed to find isHost and guest OS USB 3.0 and virtual xHCI support with Workstation 9 (2041591)which lists the supported configurations,and where the Etron USB3 controller is not listed as supported.
Even though the article is for Workstation 9 and not Workstation 12,this might be taken as an indication that your controller is unsupported,meaning that you meed to stay with USB2.