Hi
I have a Win7 guest hosted on WS11. I have tried the same VM using an OpenSUSE 13.2 and Ubuntu 14.10 host to the same (dead) end.
PROBLEM: I have a Gemalto PC Twin USB Smart Card reader attached to the host that I need t have passed through to the guest. All the documentation seems to suggest that two devices should appear in the "Removable Devices" menu - one for the reader in shared mode and one for the reader in pass-through mode. However, I only ever see the shared reader, which appears to the guest as a generic card reader, rather than the sepcific Gemalto reader that I need the guest to see.
I have added the line
usb.ccid.useSharedMode = "FALSE"
to /etc/vmware/config, but this makes no difference.
It does not seem to matter whether pcscd is running on the host or not - the result is the same.
I really do not know where to start - I have spent hours searching to try to resolve this, but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated.
Alistair