VMware

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General
Getting Access to USB Devices from a Guest OS
Building a Module for a (New) Kernel

GeneralContents

I use VMware under Linux to run other operating systems and the following notes are for this scenario.

Getting Access to USB Devices from a Guest OSContents

When usb-devices are plugged in, Linux will often claim these and guest operating systems will not be able to use them. The solution is simply to unload the usb-modules from the Linux kernel (e.g. modprobe -r usb_storage etc.) and in VMware go to the menu VM - USB Port N> and enable the device.

Building a Module for a (New) KernelContents

Get vmware-any-any-updateNNN from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ and run ./runme.pl as root. You will need the headers for the running kernel. E.g. under Debian you will need to aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686 for kernel 2.6.18-5-686 (and the headers will be installed under /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-5-686/include).