[SATLUG] VMware USB Passthrough

[Bruce Dubbs]

Samuel Leon wrote:
> I have a problem getting usb to work on a windows xp guess os under
> vmware with the host os as ubuntu 7.10.  I have windows xp and another
> linux distro both installed as guest os's.  The usb works fine on the
> linux guest but not on the windows guest (VM->Removable Devices->USB
> Devices will show nothing).  The usb controller is enabled for the
> windows guest os in the VM settings.

I don't know the answer, but I am interested.  I have vmware 5.5 on a
LFS host running XP as a client and I keep getting errors about usb.
The usb mouse works though.  I also get an error about /dev/dsp being in
use.  That may be a KDE issue and I haven't investigated.

If you find something, please post it.

  -- Bruce