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Again USB passthrough issues

  • 1.  Again USB passthrough issues

    Posted May 27, 2019 08:14 AM

    Hi all,

    I'm running ESXi 6.7u2 on a Supermicro mini server.

    I had no issue with older ESXi releases but with this one here I can't manage to see USB devices available for passthrough in the UI.

    I've followed another discussion where a bug was fixed with 6.7u1 but still I can't manage to make USB devices seen by the VM.

    I've tried adding a USB controller, 2.0 and/or 3.0 but still nothing.

    through the CLI the device is seen (see below) but it doesn't appear available in the UI (it's all greyed out)

    Any clue??

    thanks!

    [root@localhost:~] lsusb

    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP2102/CP2109 UART Bridge Controller [CP210x family]

    [root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware usb passthrough device list

    Bus  Dev  VendorId  ProductId  Enabled  Can Connect to VM  Name

    ---  ---  --------  ---------  -------  -----------------  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    1    2    10c4      ea60          true  yes                Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP2102/CP2109 UART Bridge Contr

    [root@localhost:~] /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator status

    usbarbitrator is running



  • 2.  RE: Again USB passthrough issues

    Posted Jul 11, 2019 05:14 AM

    Did you check hardware compatibility before upgrade?