I am running VMWare Player 4.0 on a Windows 7 x64 host with a Windows 7 x64 guest. I have a Microsoft ActiveSync device that I want to connect to the guest over USB. If the VM is focused, Player will detect the device when plugged in and grab it. I can also manually connect and disconnect the device from Player by right clicking on the USB symbol in player.
However, the guest os does not normally detect the device. I can get it to detect in this fashion:
1. Go into VM settings and turn on USB 2.0. This disconnects the device from the VM and connects it to the host.
2. Reconnect the device to the VM. The succeeds as far as Player is concerned, but the guest OS still does not see it.
3. Go back to settings and turn of USB 2.0. The Guest OS will now detect the device, but if I disconnect and reconnect the device, the guest OS won't see it without going through these steps again.
I never had this problem running Player 3, I'm going to try going back to that, but I'd like to run the latest. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?