I am using VMWare Workstation 7. One problem I've come across in a lot of the VMs we have is that they didn't have "Automatically connect new USB devices" disabled when their snapshots were created. Although I can disable this preference in future snapshots by powering off the virtual machine, disabling the preference and taking another snapshot, that is a big nuisance. Is there any way I can override all virtual machines I load and resume on my system to basically default that preference to off, regardless of how an individual VM may be configured, essentially overriding the individual preference?
It has become very annoying. I've got all these snapshots with USB auto connect enabled. I could disable the vmware USB pass through on the host entirely but I still need USB. I just don't want the devices connecting automatically.
If there is a way to override policy I would also like to add something like bios.bootDelay = "5000" as an override preference so that all VMs regardless of snapshot would use that preference.
Thanks for any help or insight you can offer