[Bug 36074] Re: Lack of /proc/bus/usb/devices breaks VMWare

[Matt Zimmerman]

Not a kernel issue; mountvirtfs seems to have stopped mounting this, though there's nothing in the changelog about it.

** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: linux-source-2.6.15 => sysvinit
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott James Remnant

** Summary changed:

- Lack of /proc/bus/usb/devices breaks VMWare
+ /proc/bus/usb no longer mounted?
** Description changed:

- VMWare monitors /proc/bus/usb/devices to find USB devices and connect them into the child OS.  It doesn't use sysfs or anything else, so the removal of the usbfs on /proc/bus/usb breaks the use of all USB devices in VMWare.
+ VMWare monitors /proc/bus/usb/devices to find USB devices and connect
+ them into the child OS.  It doesn't use sysfs or anything else, so the
+ removal of the usbfs on /proc/bus/usb breaks the use of all USB devices
+ in VMWare.
  
- Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'linux-image-2.6.15-18-686'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.
+ 
+ Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'linux-
+ image-2.6.15-18-686'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.
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/proc/bus/usb no longer mounted?
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36074