Ya, I added it to the vmx file and the VM wouldn’t even boot up, said the file was corrupted. This was with putting it right at the bottom just as you typed it.
Well that’s a bummer. You opened the file after the VM powered down, yeah?
Yep, shut down the VM, even closed out the VMWare program and then edited the file, no luck…
I’ll keep giving it a try though.
How did you get around having the unplug / replug the usb dongle when the machine restarted?
By adding that line to the config file
Here’s the VMware article explaining the options. I went with manufacturer name since it was the simplest solution
VMware Knowledge Base
It’s worth noting that I have no other USB.autoconnet lines. You can also open the VMware.log file in the same folder and see if it has anymore error details.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Woke up this morning to my windows PC aparently having done a reboot, since my VM was no longer up and running like I left it yesterday. Is there a way to make VMWare start up a VM on windows boot? I know you can do it with Virtualbox, but haven’t been able to find it in VMWare Workstation Player 17
Your can setup a startup script. I think I’ll do a how to when I get some time about setting up VMware for HA in general and post it.
Sorry @DoctorDan for hijacking your post.
I know for someone like me at least, that would be very helpful
I set HA back up from scratch and jotted down the details. I found an existing thread about setting up using VMware so I just added a post to it.
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