For those of you who may have noticed the &quot;Safely Remove Hardware&quot; icon in the taskbar after upgrading your VMs to virtual hardware version 7, don't be TOO alarmed. This is caused by the new support for &quot;hot plug&quot; of items like vNICS and SCSI adapters.

While this is fine to leave for most servers, any servers that a user will be accessing the desktop of (XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware View, etc.) will present this icon to the user, who then has the potential to crash the VM (disconnecting a SCSI adapter from a running VM is not a good idea). To disable this, you need to add a row in the VM &quot;Options&quot;.

Edit Settings on the VM, and go to the &quot;Options&quot; tab. From there, select &quot;General&quot; in the pane on the left, and select &quot;Configuration Parameters&quot; on the pane on the right. From there, select &quot;Add Row&quot; and enter &quot;devices.hotplug&quot; and provide a VALUE of &quot;false&quot;.