Comments on: Configuring Ubuntu as a VMware Host

By: scott

scott — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:26:20 +0000

in ubuntu hardy the repositories for commerical software are:

(note, at this time vmware-server does not appear to be working 100% with hardy heron)

mmxman15 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:53:43 +0000

Thanks! this worked perfectly on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with Vmware server 1.0.4

rose pruyne » Ubuntu and VMWare — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:42:21 +0000

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scott — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:05:47 +0000

may need to do this to get usb support working:

USB Devices Are Not Available on Some Linux hosts, the VM > Removable Devices > USB Devices Menu Is Empty

In short, the problem was Ubuntu not mounting USBFS to /proc/bus/usb.

Solution:
sudo mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

and add the following line in the /etc/fstab file:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0