Host System: Macbook Air Mac OS X Lion Parallels Desktop 6 Guest OS: Windows 7 Enterprise. Problem: Insert USB stick, get pop up to which device I want to give it to. I select the Guest VM. Stick mounts on Mac OS X, nothing appears in Windows. I've ejected it a few times, double checked a lot of things, still can't find anything that would indicate why it is doing this.
You're not alone, there are a few other threads on this. In the thread linked below, I supplied a Report ID to Parallels support. Hopefully that will help them with root cause analysis and a fix. http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=112292
yes i've submitted a ticket as well. Oddly, if you tell it to give the stick to Mac OS X it just vanishes and never connects to either the VM or the OS that I can tell.
Thanks for also submitting a ticket; if everyone does, should help escalation. Interesting, my USB drives mount fine if I tell it to give to OS X. Then again, considering that a reinstall fixes things for some folks but not others, I suppose it shouldn't be all that surprising that symptoms are not always identical. Thanks for the info.
