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We recently received a question over email where a customer was asking whether he can reprogram his YubiKey in the Windows OS running under VMware server

The answer is...

Please make the following changes to your VMware image (tested on base operating system as Windows with VMWare server but should work on other platforms):

1) Open the .vmx file of your Windows/Linux VMware image in your favorite text editor

2) Add the following line at the end of the .vmx file:

usb.generic.allowHID = "TRUE"

3) Save the .vmx file and start the Windows/Linux VMware image

Now, the Windows/Linux OS installed in VMware will start recognizing the YubiKey.

Also add a USB controller using the VMware Server Console. You can add the USB controller by selecting the Windows/Linux VMware machine's settings and clicking on Add button under the Hardware tag.

Whenever you insert the YubiKey in the physical server running the Windows/Linux VMware image, using the VMware Server Console you need to click on VM --> Removable Devices and select the YubiKey. This will enumerate the YubiKey in the Windows/Linux OS running under VMware. Now hopefully you should be able to use the Windows/Linux personalization utility to reprogram your YubiKey.

We hope this helps!