USB Device

When I try to mount USB devices and I enable on my virtual machine (win xp), it crash in a few seconds.

I’ve had this problem too, but I found a way to fix it. I’m using all sorts of USB 2.0 devices on my XP Vmware now.

You need to edit your .vmx file that describes your virtual machine to include these things.

virtualHW.version = “6”

usb.present = “TRUE”

ehci.present = “TRUE” //I had to add this one, it wasn’t allready there

Restart your Virtual Machine and you should be in business. No more Blue Screen of Death when you try to plug in your scanner 🙂