[LBo] USB not recognized on XP guest under VMware?

[Dave Barton]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Sam Morgan <s.morgan at linuxbasics.org>
Date: Wed 29 Aug 2007 13:21:57 EST

> Tim wrote:
> 
>> I had the same problem with virtualbox, and after reading way too
>> much and trying way too many things the key was to not have any usb
>> devices plugged in when starting virtualbox.  I'm sure you tried
>> that, but if not, you might.
>> 
> unfortunately this is not virtual box I'm talking about this time 
> it's vmware
> 
> and yes I tried it with the usb flash drive not plugged in when the
> virtual machine boots up
> 
> if what you say is true I just might have to go back and retry this
> on virtual box

Sam, I have come in late on this thread, so someone may have already put
this (or a similar) suggestion forward.

In the past I had usb problems running VMWare Workstation under SuSE
10.1 and I used this workaround:

Before starting the guest OS:
	mount -t usbfs /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
or while guest is running:
	mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

This may not be your issue, but it's worth a shot.

Dave