VM reaction on connection of external hard drives

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On the connection of an external hard drive to the host OS, a dialog in Parallels/the guest OS shows up asking me whether I would like to use it in the guest OS.

Is there an option that this dialog may not appear?

I looked for it and could not find it in the documentation.

I rarely want to use external hard drives in the guest OS, and on some occasion I had to notice that this Parallels dialog blocks the usuage of the external hard drive in the host OS (until it is answered with NO).
 
I share all my external hard drives with Parallels

PD >> Menu >> Devices >> Shared Folders >> add

so I have never seen that dialog

Hugh W
 
I found the option.

It now only remains to state that I tried to find the option by searching the documentation for "external" and/or "drive" and/or "hard drive", and I did not realize that it is actually determined by the USB Controller and the corresponding option in the Configuration Editior.

You decide whether this is my fault or the documentation's :-)
 
Yes, it does now work as I want it to: only a particular external drive is shown/used in the VM and the said diaolog does NOT apppear on the connection of additional exernal USB drives.

What I meant with "fault" is not irrelevant. The problem turned out to be that the answer is there in the documentation, but I could not find it. Technically and logically the documentation is correctly written, but the said section cannot be found with searching for "external" and/or "drives". But if the said section would be tagged differently it could be found. My point actually would be: changing or adding tags to the said section could be helpful!
 
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