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Re: Vmware Server Version 1.0.4 not picking Canon MP110 Printer as USB peripheral in Ubuntu 7.10(Gusty), Linux Kernel 2.6.22-14; GNOME 2.20(HOST) ; Guest - WinXP

IBM_Morpheus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:09:04 GMT

Thx for the post.. but I tried what you suggested & still have the same issue with not seeing any USB devices on the VM. Any other suggestions? Thx -

Re: Vmware Server Version 1.0.4 not picking Canon MP110 Printer as USB peripheral in Ubuntu 7.10(Gusty), Linux Kernel 2.6.22-14; GNOME 2.20(HOST) ; Guest - WinXP

ashishgoel — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:06:57 GMT

SOLVED

Please open the following file: /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh by following command - gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh

Find the following lines:
#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Unmark them so that look like this:
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Restart and your usb devices will be recognised

Vmware Server Version 1.0.4 not picking Canon MP110 Printer as USB peripheral in Ubuntu 7.10(Gusty), Linux Kernel 2.6.22-14; GNOME 2.20(HOST) ; Guest - WinXP

ashishgoel — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:49:41 GMT

Hi all,

I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 recently from 7.04 and as there is no support from the Ubuntu Community(The program not available in Add/Remove and also not in Automatix) for Vmware Server, I installed latest VMware Server directly. Everything is working fine after some tweaking but the server is not recognizing my attached printer as USB peripheral because of which I'm not able to use it with the Guest operating system. The printer is working fine in the Ubuntu 7.10 installation and had no problem in 7.04 version with Vmware Server 1.0.3.

Please help.

Thanx