Here is more info and ultimatly the reason (I guess).
From vmware.log
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. 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> Looks like it is SuSE's use of sysfs that is causing USB not to work in the VMs. Anyone have a workaround? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Craig Altenburg [mailto:craiga@eudyptes.com] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:46 PM To: SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and VMWare Workstation 4.5 work fine (sorta) That is what I see. I have a different problem with USB and the driverloader. but the VM/USB problem seems to exist whether I have the driverloader installed or not. In SuSE 9.0 I could talk to USB devices from VM, but only those that were plugged in when the VM was started. The docs seems to indicate that VM would pick up hotplugged USB devices but mine never did. (I don't know if that's related or not.) -- Craig Altenburg