VIRTUAL PC Help!

[illbashu]

ok, i got VM sever set up and i installed windows Pro. xp. the problem is it wont recognize usb drives... :/ any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

[pebo]

Have you set up VM tools?

[illbashu]

yes.... it still wont see the usb items like my sony psp slim... i checked on vm on the tool bar and checked usb and vm itself doesn't see the usb item..

yes, my psp is usb mode....

[-grubby]

tried virtualbox?
EDIT: nevermin

[fjgaude]

ok, i got VM sever set up and i installed windows Pro. xp. the problem is it wont recognize usb drives... :/ any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

See this post, Msg #4, for solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626062

Good luck. VMware Server is rock solid with everything that it supports.

[illbashu]

ya, i dont get what he means by "Lines 42-45 get uncommented, starting with #mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs."

[fjgaude]

See msg #7 of post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626118&highlight=Vmware

Keep asking questions if this doesn't do it for you.

[illbashu]

You remove the "#" mark to uncomment. You will have to do it with the superuser command "sudo". Count down the lines in the file until you get to "mkdir -p " and delete the #s in front of each of the four lines.

.. i dont get it...

this is how mine looks

#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

[ewr2san]

#commented line
uncommented line
#still a commented line
still an uncommented line


So to uncomment those lines you would need to edit them and remove the leading # symbols.

With the exception of #! on the first line of a file, # is a pretty nearly universal unix comment token.

[illbashu]

ok, i made it like this

mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

it still wont find the usbs devices... :( took off the #s

[illbashu]

bump, any one elce have any help?

[illbashu]

can someone help me!@:mad:

[patagonik]

Hy there!

I did uncomment those lines as well and nothing happened. VMware does not recognize my usb devices.

Could be nice to have some help here!!!

Mny many thanks!

[patagonik]

Ok, got it!

Maybe you've already tried but if you power off the guest machine, you are allowed to add devices to it. Notice that i've previously followed all the suggestions posted above!!!

With WinXP off, go to VM->Settings and you'll see that you are allowed to ADD devices. Select USB Controller and it will then appear listed above.

Power on your Guest system, go to VM->Removable Device->USB Devices and you'll have them all listed there. As it was commented before, they will disappear from Linux, but will be recognized on WinXP... that's it!

Hope that this will help someone.

[michaelsharman]

@patagonik - thanks for your tip, got me going on 8.10 when nothing else would!