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.
Datto