# How to get an Edgeport/1 to work correctly in a vmware virtual machine

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**Category:** USB\
**Tags:** serial, usb, vmware, virtual\
**Created:** [March 13, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-get-an-edgeport-1-to-work-correctly-in-a-vmware-virtual-machine/12665 "2014-03-13T09:00:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-get-an-edgeport-1-to-work-correctly-in-a-vmware-virtual-machine/12665/1 "2014-03-13T09:00:09Z")

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Edgeport/1 works fine on host machine. It either periodically drops out in vmware virtual machine or does not work at all. Latest edgeport driver package available (40002537\_J) tries to install a newer difxapi.dll into windows/system32 but cannot since that file can only be replaced or deleted by TrustedInstaller. Host and guest OS is Windows 7 64 bit.