-- http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:22:54 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-12-26 at 21:25 +1100, Diego Tognola wrote:
I am having no luck with accessing a USB device connected to my openSUSE11.0 from a WinXP machine running in VMware Server. According to VMware, I should be able be pick it from a list of removable devices, but this list is empty. This applies to cameras, phones... The USB devices are 'known' to openSUSE in the sense that there is an icon on the desktop - I assume this means they are mounted in some way.
Anyone managed to get this working ?
From memory, so I could make mistakes.
You have to enable usb on the vmware control "thing", before starting the guest: add an USB controller to the virtual hardware for the virtual machine. Then, boot the guest and try; if the guest is windows, it should say it has discovered new hardware.
If you still can't see any usb devices in the guest, then you might need this line in fstab:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
There are several opinions about this, by the way. For example, here (for suse 10.2):
http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux#Attaching_USB_Devices...
says you need to do:
mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb
I found some links:
http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux http://en.opensuse.org/Recovering_VMware_Workstation_After_a_Kernel_Update
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Thanks Carlos, Just figured it out: first step was to upgrade to VMware Server 2.x (I was using 1.x). Second was indeed to change to auto mount. Now it's all working, how cool ! Diego -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org