On 11/16/2009 11:16 AM, Markus � wrote:
Am Montag, 16. November 2009 schrieb John Andersen:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:33:08 pm Markus Ko�mann wrote:
Am Montag, 16. November 2009 schrieb Teruel de Campo MD:
I have just installed VMware Workstation 7.0 in opensuse 11.2 GM
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In summary I do not find problems (at least initially) with vmware workstation 64 7.0 under opensuse 11.2
Did youallready try to access an USB mass storage device ( i.e na USB thump drive or USB attached harddrive ) with your guest ?
I did. Works fine.
You get two warnings from Vmware that state:
The specified device appears to be claimed by another driver (usb-storage) on the host operating system which means that the device may be in use. To continue, the device will first be disconnected from its current driver.
Click yes to both, and the device is disconnected from Linux and connected to the guest.
(The question is asked twice, once for the drive and once for the device and once for the partition apparently).
For me this is a little bit different. I answer the questions with yes. The device disappears from the device notifer. But immediately after that the Device Notifier comes up again with the device. In /var/log/messages I see that the device was reset. And the device is not working in the guest OS. But it is marked as connected by vmware.
You are right, if the Virtual machine does not grab the device it will revert back to the host. This can happen if 1) the Vm was not defined with a USB device, or 2) the USB in the Guest was not defined with plug and play support or 3) there were no device drivers in the VM's OS, or 4) the Guest OS pulls a device driver right off of the device itself, installs it and then re-sets the USB bus so that the newly installed driver can find the device. This often happens with cameras and phones, etc. Also, be aware that many Apple devices, especially iPhones while installing new operating systems with iTunes, play fast and loose with the USB spec, and frequently disconnect and reset the USB bus. This will drive the host OS crazy, as it will re-attach the device each time. You essentially have to blacklist the bus from the host for the duration of the OS install to the phone. I've written scripts for this. But only need them for upgrading iPhone operating system in a VM. Not needed for normal iTunes syncing with the phone). Most of my testing of USB devices were on Linux Host, with various versions of windows as the guest. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org