{"id":452,"date":"2024-03-18T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:04:40","slug":"shoutout-remove-usb-controller-on-your-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/shoutout-remove-usb-controller-on-your-virtual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoutout &#8211; remove the USB controller on your virtual machines!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You are properly not going to use it anyway (after you have installed VMware Tools).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big &#8220;WHY&#8221;? &#8211; because if you remove it &#8211; then you don&#8217;t have to worry about current and future vulnerabilities on the virtual USB controller (there have been a few).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at my colleague blogpost (To get some more details \ud83d\ude42 ): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtual-allan.com\/vmware-vms-and-usb-controller\/\">VMware VMs and USB Controller \u2013 Virtual Allan (virtual-allan.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are properly not going to use it anyway (after you have installed VMware Tools). The big &#8220;WHY&#8221;? &#8211; because if you remove it &#8211; then you don&#8217;t have to worry about current and future vulnerabilities on the virtual USB controller (there have been a few). Take a look at my colleague blogpost (To get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,7],"tags":[23,50,34],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esxi","category-vmware","category-vsphere","tag-esxi","tag-usbcontroller","tag-vmtools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vmoller.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}