[SATLUG] VMware USB Passthrough

[Bruce Dubbs]

Sean Carolan wrote:
>> As for the USB question, that's a good one since I have yet to find
>> the cure for this. I got one person who needs access to his USB thumb
>> drive in the Guest OS.
> 
> I had to add this line to /etc/fstab to get my Blackberry connected to
> a VMWare machine:
> 
> usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  auto  0  0

Hmm.  I already have

usbfs    /proc/bus/usb usbfs  devgid=14,devmode=0660            0     0

and I'm running vmware as root.  Maybe I'll try adding auto.

  -- Bruce