vmware server cannot access usb devices

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I have installed vmware server 1.0.6 on to 11.0 host. The guest is windows xp. I cannot access any usb devices in the guest. any ideas on what to do?

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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:36 +0000, san100 wrote:
> I have installed vmware server 1.0.6 on to 11.0 host. The guest is
> windows xp. I cannot access any usb devices in the guest. any ideas on
> what to do?
>
>

AFAIK, vmware only has LIMITED device support via USB (e.g. disk
drives… and even then, probably not all).

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:36:04 GMT
san100 <san100@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> I have installed vmware server 1.0.6 on to 11.0 host. The guest is
> windows xp. I cannot access any usb devices in the guest. any ideas
> on what to do?
>
>
Hi
You need to change the usbfs in /etc/fstab from noauto to auto

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I dont have usbfs in my fstab file, here is my fstab file

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IC25N060ATMR04-_MRA301KEKJ43JH-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IC25N060ATMR04-_MRA301KEKJ43JH-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IC25N060ATMR04-_MRA301KEKJ43JH-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

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Then add it:


usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      auto                0 0
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ok I have added the line to fstab but I still cannot access usb in the guest

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Did you make sure usbfs got mounted before you started VMware?

mount -a

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I am new to this,
I assume I nead to mount from the command line so I did and got this

steve@linux-88pa:~> su
Password:
linux-88pa:/home/steve # mount -a
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
linux-88pa:/home/steve #

I don’t know what the warning means but usb is now working, Thanks.

Will I have to mount every time I start up, or will it start automatically from here on?

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With the auto parameter it’ll start automatically.