Hi..
i have a dvd drive.. It is plugged in and the cd drive shows up on my desktop as a cd..
Now.. The only option in my virtual machine gives me for the cd drive is autodetect..
and let me tell you..
it does NOT auto detect my usb dvd drive.
Hi..
i have a dvd drive.. It is plugged in and the cd drive shows up on my desktop as a cd..
Now.. The only option in my virtual machine gives me for the cd drive is autodetect..
and let me tell you..
it does NOT auto detect my usb dvd drive.
In order for VMware in Gutsy to recognize USB devices you need to uncomment four lines, like so:
Uncomment lines 42-45, starting with #mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfsCode:gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
That should do it. If not get back with us.
Regards, frank, at http://yantrayoga.typepad.com/noname/
Homebuilt Lian-Li PC-Q33WB, Intel i7-4790K 4.6GHz, SSDs,32G RAM | Dell Laptop 13.3".
Oracle VBox w/ WinXP/Win10 running Xara Designer, PaintShopPro, and InDesign CS.
wow thank you. I couldnt find that on google search at all.
that did not work
I am also running VMWare Server with Gutsy, and to access any of my USB devices, such as external hard drive, DVD or Memory stick, I have to select it from the VMWare Server menu as noted below.
VM>Removable Devices>USB Devices> Select the device you want to enable.
The next thing to try is to place this line in your fstab file and reboot:
Such seems to aid the ability to add USB drives.Code:usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
Regards, frank, at http://yantrayoga.typepad.com/noname/
Homebuilt Lian-Li PC-Q33WB, Intel i7-4790K 4.6GHz, SSDs,32G RAM | Dell Laptop 13.3".
Oracle VBox w/ WinXP/Win10 running Xara Designer, PaintShopPro, and InDesign CS.
Just what I needed, frank. Thanks
Ed
Last edited by edvisser; December 24th, 2007 at 07:45 PM. Reason: adding comment
to clarify; I implemented both your suggestions frank, prior that, I had no devices appear on VM > Removable Devices > USB Devices.
Good, one more satisfied Ubuntu user. <smile>
Merry Christmas.
Regards, frank, at http://yantrayoga.typepad.com/noname/
Homebuilt Lian-Li PC-Q33WB, Intel i7-4790K 4.6GHz, SSDs,32G RAM | Dell Laptop 13.3".
Oracle VBox w/ WinXP/Win10 running Xara Designer, PaintShopPro, and InDesign CS.
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