howtos:vmware_usb
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+ | ==== USB Devices Are Not Available on Some Linux hosts, the VM > Removable Devices > USB Devices Menu Is Empty Details ==== | ||
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+ | Some recently released Linux distributions are not mounting USBFS to / | ||
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+ | **Solution** | ||
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+ | To work around this issue, mount USBFS to / | ||
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+ | To do this while the host is running, execute the following command as root: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | # mount -t usbfs none / | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | You need to power cycle the virtual machines after the mount command to have access to available USB devices. | ||
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+ | To configure the host to mount USBFS automatically on bootup, add the following line in the /etc/fstab file: | ||
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+ | < | ||
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+ | </ | ||
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+ | If this line is already present in /etc/fstab, it likely has the noauto option set in the options column (4th column). Change this to auto. | ||
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+ | Some of the Linux distributions that are known not to mount USBFS by default include: | ||
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+ | * Ubuntu Linux 6.06 | ||
+ | * SUSE Linux 10.1 | ||
+ | * SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 10 | ||
+ | * Mandriva Linux 2006 | ||
+ | * SLES9 SP3 64 bit | ||
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+ | //Note: This issue affects these operating systems only when they are used as a host for VMware virtual machines. | ||
howtos/vmware_usb.txt · Last modified: 02/12/2018 21:34 by 127.0.0.1