Is it possible to stop the VM complaining if there are some missing USB devices upon startup. I take my keyboard and plug it into a USB extension cable when I want to drive the VM with GPU passthrough physical and play games. But then when going back to do work on my Mac I switch the keyboard back again.

 

Now if I try to start that VM because I wish to RDP into it then it complains about the missing USB devices. I could go in and uncheck the boxes but that then removes my modified XML rom file entry for the graphics card.

 

Just feels like it could be a bit smoother and not worry if one of the USB devices is missing...

I think there should be a hotplug plugin that you might try. Don't remember who made it or the name, but try searching CA for it.

Thanks that helps quite a bit. I still have to use that plugin to re-attach if I swap but it doesn't happen often.

You can't pass through a whole USB controller? That's the easy solution to hot-plugging USB devices.