Any help would be greatly appreciatedĮ = 'TRUE' I have done this in the past with my 2010 macbook pro so i wonder if having a usb3.0 machine is part of the issue. I tried this on my 2013 Macbook pro retina, but = 'TRUE' is not in the list of possibilities to edit.

If you find this information useful, please vote or award points for 'correct' or 'helpful'. Once connected open Device Manager and you should see the new device as USB Human Interface Device.

Once the Guest VM is booted and logged in, on the top of the vm's window there should be several USB icons to connect, hover over the one for the barcode scanner or foot control (as example), then click the Connect Symbol for your device.

vmx file and close it, then connect your HID device (barcode scanner) so that it is recognized in OSX, and boot up your Guest VM. Add the following line at the end of the file: vmx file and choose Open With -> TextEdit. vmx file in your vm's virtual hard drive directory for Workstation (Windows) version. vmwarevm file of the guest VM, right click and choose Show Package Contents (similar to unzipping archive) and find the.

Make sure Guest VM is powered down, go into settings for your Guest VM you want to enable and make sure that under USB->Advanced Options the automatically USB connection was on 'Ask what to do', NOT ON WINDOWS!.

Directions are for VMware Fusion, however should apply to Workstation, etc. However if you need to get around that, like I did to enable a USB Barcode Scanner or a Foot Control on my VMWare Fusion virtual machine, here's what to do. Ever needed to enable a HID compatible device in a VMware Client product, and was unable to? VMware blocks HID devices (by design).

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