I am running Workstation 9 on an external drive connected via USB under win 8. When I start the VM it pops up a message with 3 devices which, if I wish, I can transfer control of from the host to the client. One of these is the usb port the vm is connected to! I don't tell it to. But there have been several occasions, including today, when the vm pops up a message saying it cannot connect to the disk. This time, I unplgged from usb1 and reconnected to usb 2, and lo and behold I had a connection again.
How do I tell it to not try to grab usb1? Is there a log file setting?