Data on external drive USB store

According to the guide configuration (v4.1, p76), you can create a data store on an external usb drive connected to the host.  I have no problem seen VMs see and use USB host drives, but I don't see the USB on the list of storage adapters, configuring the host tab.  (I made sure that the USB is not assigned to a virtual machine).

Y at - there a trick to this?

You cannot use a USB device to store virtual machines - it can only be used as the virtual computer device can attach to and yes I know the documentation is somewhat misleading.

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