Showing posts with label Pass-through. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pass-through. Show all posts

17 January 2021

VMware vSphere: Pass-through WiFi and "This device cannot start" error (Code 10)

To conduct new research, I needed a WiFi card in a virtual machine. I have the WiFi adapter (Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265) in my Intel NUC5i5MYHE, VMware has VMDirectPath I/O pass-through feature, sounds easy. But it was not easy.

After simple configuration of pass-through the WiFi adapter (including embedded Bluetooth device) appeared in Windows but didn't work. Device status was like this:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

{Operation Failed}

The requested operation was unsuccessful.

At the same time embedded Bluetooth adapter works properly.