Comments on: Enabling USB support for VMware Server in Hardy Heron

By: Gaetan

Gaetan — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:25:28 +0000

Thank you from me too. Have used it to install Windows 7 beta. Works great. Still having problems getting the USB message above to resolve and the network adapter is not being recognized in Windows 7. Not sure where the problem resides but will continue to hunt.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:43:51 +0000

Hey thanks a bunch. You just helped me get my APC UPS up and running using USB on Ubuntu Server. I never knew this was disabled by default on servers.

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:12:24 +0000

I’ve found I have to run this after connecting any usb devices:

sudo chmod -R 777 /proc/bus/usb/*

Otherwise when you goto device connect in VMWare server 2.0 remote console, it comes up with:
“Remote USB device error: Remote device disconnected: an error occured while sending data.”

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:15:04 +0000

I feel really silly. But I found out about using sudo to get root priviledges about an hour after posting and I STILL didn’t thin of that!

It must have been the sleep dep.

Anyhow, it’s working now. All I have to do now is work out how to access the internet from my Windows XP Guest.

Logan

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:25:36 +0000

@Logon: Try restarting the module again with “sudo”. ie “sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start“

By: Logan

Logan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:13:11 +0000

As soon as I went to restart the module, it wouldn’t allow me, saying:

logan@logan:~$ /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start
mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/bus/usb/.usbfs’: Permission denied
open: Permission denied
* Mount point ‘/dev/bus/usb/.usbfs’ does not exist. Skipping mount.
ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/bus/usb/devices’: Permission denied
mount: only root can do that

Can you help?

I have already had success with your other posts, but this newbie just can’t figure out some basics.

Keep up the good work…

Logan

By: mrb

mrb — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:30:19 +0000

Good work! mounting usbfs to /proc/bus/usb didn’t work for me, but your solution did.

By: polarizer

polarizer — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:08:10 +0000

thx man – i ran in exactly this issue but i saw no solution and so a decided to check this out later. now it is easy. thx again

the polarizer