It seems that the only impediment to getting VMWare to successfully use USB devices is the mangled name of the /proc/bus/usb/devices_please-use-sysfs-instead directory. I renamed it back to "devices" (with a rather arcain set of sym links and mounts) and VMWare worked just find. I'll see if I can develop a patch to fix the name of the directory for "real". On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:04, burgeke@HQ.VerizonWireless.com wrote:
Mike -
You mentioned that you USB works for you on a XP guest VM running on a SuSE 9.1 host. I looked into the vmware.log and found that it is looking for:
May 13 12:56:31: vmx| USB: Unable to open "/proc/bus/usb/devices" (No such file or directory). May 13 12:56:31: vmx| USB: Unable to initialize USB Generic backend.
I was just wondering how you got it to work given SuSE 9.1 uses sysfs?
burgess@linux:/proc/bus/usb> ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 .. dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 001 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 002 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 003 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-05-13 12:46 004 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2004-05-13 13:04 devices_please-use-sysfs-instead burgess@linux:/proc/bus/usb>
Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Michael_T._Williams@oxy.com [mailto:Michael_T._Williams@oxy.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:15 PM To: burgeke@HQ.VerizonWireless.com; craiga@eudyptes.com; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and VMWare Workstation 4.5 work fine (sorta)
I am running a Dell c840 laptop with SuSE 9.1 and the host OS and USB works fine with an XP guest.
Michael
-----Original Message----- From: burgeke@HQ.VerizonWireless.com [mailto:burgeke@HQ.VerizonWireless.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:10 AM To: craiga@eudyptes.com; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and VMWare Workstation 4.5 work fine (sorta)
Unable to get usb to work here either. Tried unloading usblp to no avail. Going to check the Vmware lists now....
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Altenburg [mailto:craiga@eudyptes.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:47 AM To: SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and VMWare Workstation 4.5 work fine (sorta)
I, too, have VMWare 4.5 installed and running; but have not been able to get the virtual machine (running XP Home) to talk to USB devices.
Has anyone got USB working?
-- Craig Altenburg
On May 13, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Mike Coan wrote:
Greetings,
Just thought I would post to let people know that VMWare Workstation 4.5 runs fine on SuSE 9.1. The prebuilt modules don't load, but it builds modules and those run fine.
My setup is as follows:
Asus A&V8X-X motherboard Athlon XP 2500 1G DDR RAM nvidia FX5200 video card 120G ide drive (Maxtor I think, but don't remember Combo DVD-CD/RW drive
I am running (sorry I need it for work) XP Pro on vmware. It connects
to the Windows 2003 server, and runs all apps fine.
I do get a message when starting Windows that the kernel is newere than what is officially supported, and that there may be problems, but
so far there haven't been.
So far 9.1 has been completely stable under this setup. using YAST to
install the nvidia video driver worked as advertised.
The Samba client under YAST actually added my machine tot he Windows domain. haven't had a chance to mount the Windows shares yet.
The only thing that doesn't work is sound. works fine on my home machine which is a different chipset for sound. Will post my sound problems in a separate message.
Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502
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