

Starting with version 9, Workstation introduced support for all the USB 3.0 Controllers provided that you are running Windows 8, and Windows 8 specifically, because Windows 8 introduces NATIVE USB 3.0 support, and Workstation relies on Windows 8 Native USB Driver stack to get working with all USB 3.0 Controller (as per documentation). VMware Workstation introduced support for USB 3.0 xHCI controllers with version 8 – but with version 8 – support has been limited to NEC USB 3.0 Controllers, and hence, with version 8, we don’t get native support for Intel USB 3.0 xHCI. In this Post, we illustrate how to get Intel USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller Interface ( xHCI) Controller USB Passthrough working with VMware Workstation 9, when using Windows 7. WaheGuru G Ka Khalsa, WaheGuru G Ki Fateh
