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funiae
March 9th, 2008, 05:52 AM
Hello,

I don't see usb devices in my Ubuntu running in VMWare. I read some posts about, unfortunately it didn't solve my problem.
The main problem is that when i'm running:

sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start

i got message:

Filesystem type 'usbfs' is not supported. Skipping mount.
ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/bus/usb/devices' to `.usbfs/devices': File exists
mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist

Additional info:
I have already uncomment lines:
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
I have VMWare tools installed
dcstar
March 10th, 2008, 04:04 AM
Hello,

I don't see usb devices in my Ubuntu running in VMWare. I read some posts about, unfortunately it didn't solve my problem.
.........

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4363424&postcount=4
funiae
March 10th, 2008, 04:27 AM
It didn't help. I still have message:

Filesystem type 'usbfs' is not supported. Skipping mount.
ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/bus/usb/devices' to `.usbfs/devices': File exists
mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist
dcstar
March 11th, 2008, 06:15 AM
It didn't help. I still have message:

Filesystem type 'usbfs' is not supported. Skipping mount.
ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/bus/usb/devices' to `.usbfs/devices': File exists
mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist

Nowhere in the solution does it say to run that command, why are you doing it?
funiae
March 14th, 2008, 02:41 PM
I have made everything from solution post, unfortunatelly i still don't see any usb device.

I tried to run: sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start, and this error message apears.
fjgaude
March 14th, 2008, 03:40 PM
Where and how are you looking for the USB devices?
bluewhale
March 16th, 2008, 01:08 PM
One thought: after altering my installation as recommended by DCStar I had to alter the hardware for this VM> ( I've been running Ubuntu for 2 weeks now. Google is my best friend )

If you haven't done so start up that VM, go to VM / Settings / then click on +Add near the bottom of that window. A USB Root controller can be found there. After installing it it took a couple of restarts of this XP VM but I'm able to finally use my Memory stick again. \\:D/