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VMWare doesn't see a USB device that XPM does!
I've been looking at VMWare Player as an alternative to XPM under Virtual PC. I installed it - it does certainly seem snappier than XPM so I figured I'd try it out.
One of the reasons I use a virtual machine is that my universal remote - a Marantz RC9500 which has a USB port - is not recognized in Win7 and there is no compatible driver for it which will load in Win7. So I need to run under a virtual XP to make any updates to it using the control software supplied by Marantz.
This works in XPM, even if it is slow. The USB device shows up in the menu area on top and I can install it using the driver software which is available from the Marantz control program installation.
I set up Player to Show All USB Devices, but whether I plug in the device and start the Player VM, or start the VM then plug in the device, it does not show up as a USB device. This is a real problem for me if there's no way to fix it. I'm hoping it's a simple matter of me doing something wrong. Help appreciated.