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Stupidly, I passthrough'd all my USB ports in an attempt to copy USB data to some VMs....<br />
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I'm also booting off of a USB thumb drive. &nbsp;The server boots, copies esxi into memory and then disables USB. &nbsp;The paradigm is that I remove USB passthrough, but obviously it can't write that change to the USB drive at that point. &nbsp;Crap. &nbsp;I can't be the only one who's done this and I can't imagine there's not a way to undo this, short of reinstalling.<br />
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Can I remove the USB drive, plug it into another machine, and change or delete lines in a conf file or something?<br />
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Desperate here. &nbsp;There's a ton of VLAN info and networking that I don't want to have to re-add, but will if there's no other option. &nbsp;<br />
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Another kicker, once the esx goes into memory and loads, no keyboard.
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Stupidly, I passthrough'd all my USB ports in an attempt to copy USB data to some VMs....

I'm also booting off of a USB thumb drive.  The server boots, copies esxi into memory and then disables USB.  The paradigm is that I remove USB passthrough, but obviously it can't write that change to the USB drive at that point.  Crap.  I can't be the only one who's done this and I can't imagine there's not a way to undo this, short of reinstalling.

Can I remove the USB drive, plug it into another machine, and change or delete lines in a conf file or something?

Desperate here.  There's a ton of VLAN info and networking that I don't want to have to re-add, but will if there's no other option.  

Another kicker, once the esx goes into memory and loads, no keyboard.

Esxi, involving USB passthrough and booting off USB

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