Configure Passthrough in ESXi host for USB Dongle?

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  -what it means and how can I solve this problem?

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  What USB dongle is that exactly?
  What cell phone do you have?
  What operating system is installed?
  Have you already tried to reinstall the driver for USB dongle?

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  Graceful,.

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  We have good experiences with this and just love it

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• not detect the USB dongle.

  Hello

  We use VmwareESX, 4.0.0.

  We show USB dongle to the VM server and tries to install the ASPENTECH software.

  Licensing configuration files are present in the USB dongle, it acquires during the installation of products ASPENTECH.

  But the server does not detect the USB dongle.

  While the local computer detects the dongle, and we are able to install Aspentech successfully on the local computer.

  Please suggest if additional configuration on the Vmware server.

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  + 91-9970833533

  It is not supported. See the following KB for possible workaround:

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• How would you save the whole VM from a free ESXi host?

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