Hi guys, Just a follow up: coincidentally, a minor update to VMWare Fusion was released this week, I believe version 8.1.1. In the release notes there is specifically a mention of a fix for the issue of not being able to format USB drives from within virtual machines. I can verify that things now work as expected and the bug seems to be fully resolved.
Thanks! Grant On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Grant <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all, In a VMWare virtual machine, I’m trying to use the diskpart utility to format a USB drive so I can use it to install Windows. When I try to do this, Diskpart gives an internal error and the drive unmounts from the VM. Has anyone had success performing this kind of hardware function from a virtual machine? If not, is there a reason why it cannot be done? The device is, of course, set to “connect to Windows” rather than “connect to Mac”. Thanks for any advice. Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
