VMWare - WinXP

uselpa · 11-16-2004, 10:58 AM

All,

I have installed VMWare 4.5.2-8848 on Slack 10 stable. In a VM, I have installed WinXP SP2. Installation of VMWare was fine and Windows runs fine as well, access to CDROM is ok, but this is not the case for USB ports.

I have tried both an USB flash storage and a Palm 515 cradle. Neither shows up in Windows, and the VM menu in VMWare doesn't show anything under USB port 1 or 2.

I have never tried to access the Palm cradle from Slack, but the USB flash works just fine natively after mounting. So i guess that at least for this one, VMWare is supposed to see it as well when it has the focus.

Has anybody else been able to access an USB device in a similar situation?

Regards,
-pu

mr_batch · 02-15-2005, 05:31 AM

Hi,

I have the same problem. I successfully installed Windows XP Home (service pack 1) inside VMware 4.5.2 and everything seems to work fine except for USB devices.

I'm using Slackware 9 with the last kernel version from the 2.4.x branch (2.4.29)

As you said, I can't see my pen drive from outside VMware but not from inside.

Any ideas ? Solutions ?

Regards,
mr_batch

djgerbavore · 02-15-2005, 09:29 AM

what i do for situations like that is set up a network with samba, or use gaim, one user on linux and another user on vm (windows) and you can transfer files at very fast rates, because its all on the same harddrive, but usually a different parition?!? at least i hope its on a different parition for you guys

so there is no clear answer, but its a work that i fine works good.

thanks,

djgerbavor3

mr_batch · 02-15-2005, 01:49 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm already doing that. The problem is using USB devices inside VMware.

BTW, in my last post I meant "I CAN see my pen drive from outside VMware but not from inside.". Just a typing mistake. :-)

Regards,

mr_batch

BrianW · 02-15-2005, 01:53 PM

It's been awhile since I used VMWare, but if I remember correctly, you need to add the USB as devices maybe in the config area of the VMWare virtual system.

mr_batch · 02-15-2005, 05:05 PM

Thanks for your answer.

Anyway, I do have a USB controller present in my VM. And two USB port menu items appear in Edit menu when I power on, but they are empty. There's no way to unfold them and maybe activate some device.

I have configured an rebuilt all usb kernel modules (usb-uhci, ehci-hcd, ohci) but none of them are detected by VMware.

I'm trying to figure out what to do next. Devices work properly on my Linux host but not inside my Windows guest.

Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,
mr_batch