vmware player and USB devices

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)]

Lorenzo Taylor a écrit :
> Hi,
> I am running Ubuntu Feisty and have installed vmware-player and have a
> Windows XP virtual machine. Everything works fine except my USB devices.
> I have a Dell printer and a USB thumb drive, neither of which work
> properly in the virtual machine. Vmware-player can detect the devices
> and connect and disconnect them, but whenever I disconnect a device it
> seems to cut the power to the USB port. Also, when I connect the device,
> the guest OS seems not to know what to do with it. It knows that a
> device was connected, but it can't seem to communicate with it. I even
> get the warning about my device being slower than it should be because
> it's a USB 2.0 device plugged into a USB 1.1 port, which is correct,
> since the virtual hardware only supports USB 1.1. But beyond that I can
> get no communication either with my printer or my thumb drive. The guest
> OS tells me that the virtual USB controler is working properly. Does
> anyone have any suggestions how to fix this? I can send the virtual
> machine vmx file to anyone who needs it to diagnose my problem. I run
> the latest 2.6.20-16 kernel on Feisty with all the updates through
> yesterday.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Lorenzo
> 

Hi,

Did you installed the printer driver on windows ?

wattazoum

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