Vmware Fusion 5 Usb 3 Driver

■USB passthrough mode: The smart card reader device is available as model name of your smart card reader USB Smart Card Reader. When you connect the reader to the guest, it appears as model name of the smart card reader USB Smart Card Reader under the device list in the guest operating system. In USB passthrough mode, a single virtual machine directly controls the physical smart card reader. A USB passthrough smart card reader cannot be used by applications on the host or by applications within other virtual machines. Use USB passthrough mode only if connection in virtual mode does not work well for your computing environment.
Vmware Usb Driver
When you attach a smart card reader to your computer, the reader appears as two separate USB devices in the VMware Fusion interface. You can use smart cards in virtual mode or USB passthrough mode. These mode are mutually exclusive. You must pick one or the other.

I am having a tough time in getting USB 3 work with VMWare Player 12 on Windows 7.Host – Gigabyte 880GM USB3 board with Etron USB 3 controller. AMD Athlon CPU, 12GB RAM, Windows 7 64Guest – VMWare Player 12, Windows 7 64, 4GB RAM, USB 3 enabled in VM configuration and successfully installed the recommended Intel(R)USB3.0eXtensibleHostControllerDriver5.0.3.42 in Guest Windows 7The issue is when I connect a USB 2 or USB 3 pen drive at Host USB 3 port it is just not detected in the VM at all. Only once it mysteriously appeared but when I tried to connect it gave ‘Host is using the device’ error, but then no files or even explorer window was open on host.I even tried installing the Etron drivers in Guest but it fails.I think there’s some incompatibility between the Etron Host device and the Intel USB 3 controller driver.

There’s no issue with USB 2 ports at all.What else can I try?