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 +==== USB Devices Are Not Available on Some Linux hosts, the VM > Removable Devices > USB Devices Menu Is Empty Details ====
 +
 +Some recently released Linux distributions are not mounting USBFS to /proc/bus/usb.  The virtual machine's USB back end uses this to detect USB Devices that are attached to the host.
 +
 +**Solution**
 +
 +To work around this issue, mount USBFS to /proc/bus/usb.
 +
 +To do this while the host  is running, execute the following command as root:
 +<code>
 + # mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb 
 +</code>
 + 
 +You need to power cycle the virtual machines after the mount command to have access to available USB devices.
 +
 +To configure the host to mount USBFS automatically on bootup, add the  following line in the /etc/fstab file:
 +
 +<file>
 + usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  auto  0  0 
 +</file>
 + 
 +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.
 +
 +Some of the Linux distributions that are known not to mount USBFS by default include:
 +
 +    * Ubuntu Linux 6.06
 +    * SUSE Linux 10.1
 +    * SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 10
 +    * Mandriva Linux 2006
 +    * SLES9 SP3 64 bit
 +
 +//Note: This issue affects these operating systems only when they are used as a host for VMware virtual machines.  These operating systems, when used as guests, do not exhibit this problem.//
  
howtos/vmware_usb.txt · Last modified: 02/12/2018 21:34 by 127.0.0.1