I did not reboot the Windows virtual machine.Ģ) Connected the Superdrive, which was automatically connected to Mac OS. I then found the following procedure worked fine for me:ġ) Powered my Mac down and rebooted (I was 'frozen' from a previous unsuccessful approach with the superdrive). But I have just had exactly this same problem and found several similar discussion threads elsewhere where nobody has an answer. I see this thread has not been added to for some time. VMWare Tooks are installed, and VMWare is up to date. REALLY need the VM to recognize the external Apple Superdrive, so need to know how to accomplish this. Relaunched the VM, went into the thumb drive to set up, and it comes back with error, this cannot be installed on this system. However, I went thru the motions in Bootcamp Asst, downloaded the driver from the machine with the VM, and saved it to a thumb drive. NOT sure why, since I am not using Bootcamp at all.

I got error saying device requires installation of Apple Bootcamp driver disk in the virtual machine. I then set it to always be windows, but does not matter. I had it set to ask what to do, so I could pick windows or mac, and it did to that, so I know it is recognizing the drive is plugged in. Once it actually let me install software. If I unplug the drive and plug it back in several times, MAYBE it will be recognized, and sucks the DVD in. When I look under USB and Bluetooth drives, SATA is the one selected, but USB is not a choice.

I go up under Virtual Machine and click to connect, it says it will and do I want it to always do this? I click YES. I have just installed Win 7 VM under FMWare Fusion 7.x, and cannot get Windows to recognize the USB external Superdrive.

Apple usb superdrive compatible with pc