ESXi Vmware 5.5 with Win7 Virtual Machine as Client from Pi (Server)

Submitted by joerg on #1

Hello,

I have a Problem with a SPR332 Chipdrive Smart Card Reader. This is physical connected to Raspberry Pi running as Server.

This works fine with a standalone Notebook running Win7 64bit as client connecting to the Pi server.

On my ESXi Vmware Server is also a Win7 64bit Installation running as VM. The drivers of the Card Reader also installed in the VM. The vhui64.exe Client also starts and the VirtualHere USB Host Controller an Hub are active in the Device Manager from Win7. The Client shows the Smart Card Reader if connected.

But a Test with the Driver Software from Card reader tells 'No Connected'.

A simply USB Stick shows on the VM all Files.

The only Difference is that standalone Notebook works and a VM works not.

I hope anyone have a Solution.

Greetings from Germany
Jörg

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 2014/09/28 - 23:25

#2

Thats very strange, the vm should'nt make a difference , and the software and hardware are exactly the same. Could you try in another vm? and see if its ok

I have tested on two different Host's (AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor and Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz) and an XP 32bit VM. No changes, the same Problem.

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2014/10/01 - 12:04

#4

OK, lets try this

1. Download the trial of usblyzer from http://www.usblyzer.com
2. Install and run it in the vm
3. Select Capture -> Settings... and check all boxes
4. Click Start
5. In the virtualhere client, use the card reader
6. The usblyzer screen will fill with messages.
7. After about 5-10 seconds stop usblyzer
8. Send me the usblyzer log file (ulz or htm)

Submitted by simonef on Fri, 2017/04/28 - 00:26

#5

Same problem here: same background and similar Card reader, in local with a physical pc everything works, but using a VM with ESXI 5.5 as described in older posts the card reader will not work, the strange thing is that the other devices are working correctly.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2017/04/28 - 10:41

#6

OK the problem is that when using RDP some smartcards are blocked by windows directly as a security measure. To get around this use VNC to access the windows machine instead of remote desktop and it should work.