I have WinXP running in VMplayer 2.5.1 on openSuSE. Upgrading to openSuSE 11.1 has stopped my PDA talking to the WinXP guest OS when it worked perfectly under 11.0. My USB memory stick has also stopped working.
When I connect the PDA (Dell Axim X51 running WinCE) or memory stick WinXP beeps for a USB device connected, but ActiveSync can’t find the PDA and the disk doesn’t appear to be mounted. The device manager reports that the driver encountered an error.
As this is the identical VM that was running and working under 11.0 I don’t think the problem lies with the WinXP guest OS.
Running VMplayer from the console reports no errors. Both lspci on the host openSUSE and guest WinXP report the devices correctly.
Hi Mark. I’d be interested to know how you went about setting up the WinXP installation in VMWare Player. I just posted about this in the following thread:
Would I be right in assuming you’re using the official proprietary version of VMPlayer, downloaded from the VMWare site? If so, do they provide a SUSE-specific package in rpm form? And did you make a fresh WinXP virtual machine installation or did you manage to copy an existing installation?
Not sure that I can help. I run VMware Player 2.5.1 downloaded from the VMware site as a *.bundle file. I installed it by running as root:
sh ./VMware<version>.bundle
As I had an older version I had to do the fix of removing the old /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary folder as found on google.
The virtual machine (WinXP) was built for me as a standard role-out VM by the work IT dept. I just open it with vmplayer and off it goes.
Cheers
Sounds like it’s still very much a proprietary package and specialised procedure, which is a bit of a shame. I just hope that if I go down this route, I won’t find that in the future when I come to upgrade SUSE or the kernel, etc., that they’ve stopped providing the VMPlayer package or changed its configuration.