Lacie Vmware Info

On macOS with VMware Fusion, a Thunderbolt LaCie acts as a PCIe device. Fusion’s virtual SCSI layer + Apple’s IOKit + LaCie’s Thunderbolt controller firmware = race conditions. One VMware engineer (circa 2018) called it “a three-body problem of drivers.”

Connecting a LaCie Portable SSD directly to a guest Virtual Machine (VM) bypasses the host operating system's filesystem entirely. LaCie d2 Professional User Manual - Getting Connected lacie vmware