-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/2009 09:36 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/16/2009 11:16 AM, Markus � wrote:
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.
Ah... I think I had that problem with a TomTom. I told vmware to grab the device without asking me, so that it is regrabbed automatically again and again. Seems to work. Aparently vmware remembers the device that you don't want to be warned, because if will still warn for other devices you use. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2-ex-factory "Emerald" GM) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksBv2MACgkQU92UU+smfQVAmgCfd7f/zPVH5LckM5UNZ1lm6B26 y5oAn1Xp/CImHc/hVZ0d8Thy4hWDgYqS =NfDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org