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Does anything have to be done to the host or does it just allow it by default?
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Does anything have to be done to the host or does it just allow it by default?

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It will allow it by default..
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I have added it to the virtual machine as your instructions state (great article btw) but I still don't get anything to show up when I plug in the dongle or a flash drive.
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I have added it to the virtual machine as your instructions state (great article btw) but I still don't get anything to show up when I plug in the dongle or a flash drive.

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Got it now. Thank you very much for the detailed instructions.
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Got it now. Thank you very much for the detailed instructions.

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No problems. Glad you liked the article!
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I have an application inside of VMware that requires a dongle to run. I have the dongle plugged in to the host that the virtual machine is hosted on. What do I need to do to allow that virtual machine to see that dongle?
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I have an application inside of VMware that requires a dongle to run. I have the dongle plugged in to the host that the virtual machine is hosted on. What do I need to do to allow that virtual machine to see that dongle?

Using USB in VMware 5.0

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.