Hi all,
I have some USB devices that are connected to my ESXi 6.5.0 host. At times, I need to hot plug them into VMs. When I edit one VM, add a USB device, assign the physical device and save, all works well and the device is plugged into the VM. When I do the same with the second VM, saving fails, saying "The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered on)."
Both VMs run flavors of Linux x64 and both have tools installed and running (if that matters).
I checked the configs and "devices.hotplug" is not configured for either. I even tried setting "devices.hotplug" to TRUE but that didn't make a difference.
What could be the reason for one machine accepting USB hotplug and the other rejecting it?
Thanks in advance for any insight!