Successfuly installed Player 5 on win 7 x64 host. I then created a win 8 guest vm with latest tools added. OS seems to work ok, but...
It gives me a message upon load that my LaCie 2TB Minimus USB 3 external HDD is available from the tools bar. It shows an icon for it which I right click then select "Connect(disconnect from host)". However the LaCie connections fails. It gives a message telling my that specifically my LaCie could not connect, but only then says "Driver error". I've tried connecting both with the HDD already connected / disconnected to the host and get the same result.
I am new to vm's and vmware and cannot use vmware if I cannot get to my LaCie. I intend on buying Workstation if I can get the basics working on Player.