Re: [opensuse] USB Under VMware

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 02:39:54 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 04:55, ivo.linux wrote:
Il Wednesday 15 October 2008 04:29:42 Lucky Leavell ha scritto:
...

The USB-under-VMware problem solution is in the same message you
quoted above. In Host Settings, CLick on Add then choose USB as I
recall (I am not at that machine right now). Then VM => removable
devices => USB (I think) => Select the USB device from the list of
detected devices.

Hope this helps,
Lucky Leavell

Thank for the answer

well my problem is slightly different because my usb menu is empty
... I need the usb support for my gps-navigator management...
ha the Linux way is really hard, too much trap

If you're running openSUSE 10.2 (or 10.1? I forget in which USBFS was
disabled), then you're out of luck unless you're willing to rebuild
your kernel with USBFS enabled.


Randall Schulz

the problem *is* USBFS! older threads just passed the buck between the kernel
and vmaware, then some kind soul provided the workaround:
as root type in a console:

mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

after that all usb devices appear in vmware and you can manually
control "connecting" and disconnecting to them.

don't know how to make this automatic, if you reboot you will have to re-type
it. perhaps one of the gurus on the list can help do that.
d.
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