Programatically connect and disconnect USB devices in virtual machine

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I'm developing automated testing for software which needs to eject and reconnect USB devices automatically at the BUS level, not simply software.

This makes a virtual environment optimum because the virtual hardware can be controlled to emulate such behavior. However, I cannot find a way to do this programmatically through VMWare, VirtualBox, or Zen.

Is this kind of functionality implementable? Thank you!

Windows or Linux? What programming languages do you have at your disposal? — Preston Martin, Feb 21 '17 at 16:09
Windows 7+ is the focus, all programming languages are fair game. — Connor Spangler, Feb 21 '17 at 16:12
Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42372314/programatically-connect-and-disconnect-usb-devices-in-virtual-machine — wap26, Nov 22 '17 at 14:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 15:59

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using VSPhere API, it's soap based web service that can do the same thing as you using VSphere client.

there is a interface called: ReconfigVM_Task may be you can use, see ref at: Vsphere API Reference

answered Mar 02 '17 at 15:59

jay liu

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Programatically connect and disconnect USB devices in virtual machine

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