Connect or Disconnect a Virtual Device You can connect and disconnect removable devices such as floppy drives, DVD/CD-ROM drives, ISO images, USB devices, sound adapters, and network adapters. Important Note the following restrictions for connecting devices: ■ Some devices cannot be shared between the host and guest or between two guests. For example, only one virtual machine or the host can access the floppy drive at any one time. ■ The controls for connecting and disconnecting devices might not be available, depending on whether your system administrator has enabled them. ■ Audio devices are not supported for virtual machines on ESX/ESXi servers. Prerequisites Make sure the VMware Tools control panel is open in the guest. Procedure 1 Click the Devices tab in the VMware Tools control panel. 2 Select the devices you want to connect or disconnect by using the check boxes or by right-clicking the device icon in the status bar of the virtual machine window. Option Description IDE CD-ROM drive or ISO image if you configure the device to use an ISO image Floppy Floppy diskette drive NIC (on Windows) or Ethernet (on Linux) Network adapter If you do not see a particular network adapter listed that you know should appear in the list, edit the virtual machine settings to remove all network adapters and then add them again. Audio (on Windows) or sound (on Linux) Sound adapter