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I have a VMWare Player version 6.0.0 installed on my machine since when I was using Windows 7 x64. Some time ago I updated the later to Windows 10 and when I started my Linux Ubuntu Gnome with VMWare, a problem appeared.
I have a external Samsung HD connected via USB 2.0 to my PC. Back when using Windows 7.0, when I started the Ubuntu inside VMWare this would automatically reconnect the external HD to Ubuntu and everything would work fine. But this didn't occur after the update to Windows 10: I don't remember the first message, but the external HD couldn't be connected to the Ubuntu virtual machine.
Now everytime I run the VM the external HD remains connected to the host Windows 10. An icon, disabled, appears in the VMWare menu and I have the possibility to ask it to connect. When I do so, the external HD is disconnected from the host Windows 10, but fails to be connected to the VM; instead, after something like 2 minutes, a warning message appears:
I searched the web for explanations, but no comments were found for this problem for this particular situation and I can't judge if the answers for other ocasions when similar driver errors occured would work for me.
So why this error and what should I do?
Found resources:
EDIT:
After downloading a newer version of VMware Player, the device still wasn't automatically connected to the virtual machine as usual and when I tried to do it manually, I got an even worst scenario:
Everything was working fine before trying to do the connect. The "VMware stop working" pop-up appeared right after clicking one of the "Runtime Error" message boxes that started appearing one after the other.
Can you try VMware Player 8? – jamesdlin – 2015-09-03T17:34:56.297
@jamesdlin if you can provide me with the installer, sure! ^^ – Momergil – 2015-09-03T18:05:03.530
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0 – jamesdlin – 2015-09-03T18:21:16.927
@jamesdlin thanks for the link. I downloaded, installed and tried it; the result appears in the "EDIT" section above. – Momergil – 2015-09-05T02:25:02.500
Oh dear. You probably would be better off reporting this bug to VMware's community forums (Player > Help > Support > Online Community). – jamesdlin – 2015-09-05T06:43:44.597
@jamesdlin gosh how bizzare! I went to VMware community forum, registered and when I was about to write the bug note I decided to do a second attempt - and now it worked! \o/ Maybe this has something to do with the fact that now I asked VMware Tools for Linux to be downloaded and installed, but I'm not sure. Anyway using a newer VMware Player was certainly the biggest part of the solution, so thanks! Could you please post that as an answer now so I may mark it as accepted? – Momergil – 2015-09-05T13:02:28.363