On Wednesday 26 May 2004 02:35 am, burgeke@HQ.VerizonWireless.com wrote:
Earlier threads discussed the fact that USB devices would not work within VMware running under a SuSE 9.1 host OS. This was due to the fact that /proc/bus/usb/devices was renamed to devices_use-sysfs-instead which apparently is a SuSE hack (does not exist in the pristine kernel.)
Petr from the VMware list proposed the following fix within VMware which worked perfectly. (Thanks Petr!)
mkdir /tmp/usb (cd /proc/bus/usb; for a in *; do ln -s /proc/bus/usb/$a /tmp/usb/$a; done) ln -s /proc/bus/usb/devices_please-use-sysfs-instead /tmp/usb/devices
Then modify the .vmx file for your VM and add the line:
usb.generic.devfsPath = "/tmp/usb"
Hope this helps someone..
Keith
Is this a shell command: 'for a in *; do ln -s /proc/bus/usb/$a /tmp/usb/$a; done'? Is 'done' a part of the command? Is 'devices_please-use-sysfs-instead' a file, dir or place holder? Thanks, Jerome