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Table 45. USB Device Families (Continued)
Device Family
Name Description
comm
Communications devices such as modems and wired networking adapters.
hid
Human interface devices excluding keyboards and pointing devices.
hid-bootable
Human interface devices that are available at boot time excluding keyboards and pointing devices.
imaging
Imaging devices such as scanners.
keyboard
Keyboard device.
mouse
Pointing device such as a mouse.
other
Family not specified.
pda
Personal digital assistants.
physical
Force feedback devices such as force feedback joysticks.
printer
Printing devices.
security
Security devices such as fingerprint readers.
smart-card
Smart-card devices.
storage
Mass storage devices such as flash drives and external hard disk drives.
unknown
Family not known.
vendor
Devices with vendor-specific functions.
video
Video-input devices.
wireless
Wireless networking adapters.
wusb
Wireless USB devices.
Turn on Logging for USB Redirection
You can use USB logs to troubleshoot and to determine the product ID and vendor ID of various devices
you plug in to the client system.
You can enable trace logging either just for the current session or across reboots. To enable logging for the
current session, you use a shell command. To enable logging across reboots, add the shell command to the
appropriate profile file.
Prerequisites
If you plan to configure trace logging to persist across system reboots, you must have Administrator or root
permissions on the client system. This prerequisite does not apply if you plan to enable logging for the
current session only.
Procedure
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To enable logging for the current session only, use the launchctl command.
a Quit Horizon Client so that the USB service daemon is stopped.
b Open a shell (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) as the same user who starts Horizon Client.
c Use the following command:
launchctl setenv VMWARE_VIEW_USBD_LOG_OPTIONS "-o log:trace"
d Restart Horizon Client.
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