VMware: Warning: /vmfs/devices/char/wmkdriver/usbpasstrough not found
After installing VMware ESX 4.1 with a connected USB (for USB passtrough in one of my VM’s) disk in my VMware Workstation 7.1 I received this error:
0:00:00:56.791 cpu0:4096)Warning: /vmfs/devices/char/vmkdriver/usbpassthrough not found
Solution:
- Edith the Virtual Machine hardware
- Add new hardware: USB Controller
- ^ Select: Show all USB input devices;
- ^ The USB Storage device is detected;
- ^ Connect the hardware en present it to the virtual machine
- Reboot the ESX 4.1 host
The error disappears and I can use my USB storage disk now for USB pass trough
Het blijft toch instabiel spul he? Dat VMware
How do you do remediate this warning when the esx host is not a VM in Vmware Workstation – but a physical host?
For nested ESX 4.1 hosts running under ESX 5.0 — I added the USB controller to the nested ESX 4.1 host and then chose the USB 2.0/1.1 type controller (not the USB 3.0 controller which won’t work) and then clicked OK andrebooted the nested ESX 4.1 host. The problem and error message went away.
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