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I am running ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop, I have installed VMware and installed windows on there, when i plug in my USB stick, the host takes control and the light shows up on my usb to show its working, however when i go to take control on the VM off the usb, Windows will not pick it up on there?, VMware recognizes it, windows recognizes it on my desktop, just the virtual windows will not pick it up.

If i go to device manager on the emulated windows it says there is a problem with the USB Connector Driver, However i have searched online and cannot find a driver for the problem?

If anyone has had a similar or the same issue please help me resolve this

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  • Which Windows was installed? (it's not an Ubuntu issue though)
    – Thomas Ward
    Jun 13, 2015 at 19:54
  • Windows 7, i thought it may be a conflict as im new to linux and never had this problem on windows before
    – Ricky
    Jun 13, 2015 at 19:55
  • screenshot your USB Controller settings for the VM. Upload to imgur and provide a link. Also read my answer.
    – Thomas Ward
    Jun 13, 2015 at 19:57
  • Will try windows 8, Thank you for your assistance
    – Ricky
    Jun 14, 2015 at 13:23
  • let me know. If my answer helped please feel free to accept my answer. Also, USB 3.0 is reverse compatible with 2.0, but your host machine has to support USB 3.0 for it all to work too. :)
    – Thomas Ward
    Jun 14, 2015 at 14:25

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This is actually a Windows Guest issue, not one with Ubuntu, so this should be migrated elsewhere, in my opinion.

Use USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0 emulation. Only Win8+ has USB 3.0 native drivers as part of Windows, so only USB 2.0 emulation will work with Win7 and older guest OSes.

I know this because setting up the VM I use for forensics in Windows ran into this issue. USB 2.0 emulation worked, but 3.0 failed because there's no native Windows USB 3.0 driver in Win7 and earlier (they are proprietary drivers from manufacturers for bare metal installs)

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