Wednesday 30 January 2013

Remove Safely Remove Hardware option from Virtual Desktop

My windows 7 Virtual Machines hosted on VMWare ESX 5.0 were showing users a "Safely Remove Hardware" Prompt in their systray.

This showed the NICs and the Harddisk as removal devices.

If the users click to remove the NICs they remove and lose their connection.
The hard disk cannot be removed as its in use.

To remove this un-required icon perform the following action for VMware ESX environments.


Click the VM, Select Edit Settings, Click Option, Click General under the advanced section.
Click Configuration parameters and click “Add Row” enter devices.hotplug and a value of false
Click OK and click OK to save the changes.

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