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6 Replies Last post: Dec 23, 2008 12:33 AM by ohana  

Incompatibility with CP210x USB to UART Bridge posted: Nov 24, 2008 11:52 PM

Click to view drebes's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Nov 24, 2008
I have a USB GPS which uses a CP210x USB to UART Bridge. In MacOS X, I use this driver to communicate with the GPS. When I try to connect the USB device to a Windows XP VM, the VM hangs, and after a few minutes it's stopped with a "Pipe: Cannot Read" error message. After that, the VM cannot be restarted until I reboot my Mac. If the MacOS X driver is not loaded during boot, though, I can communicate with the device through the VM with no problems. I think there is an incompatibility between Fusion 2.0.1 and such driver.

Re: Incompatibility with CP210x USB to UART Bridge

1. Nov 25, 2008 8:25 AM in response to: drebes
Click to view etung's profile Guru VMware Employees 11,255 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
So to make sure I understand correctly, with the OS X driver loaded, the USB device never works (as opposed to works then stops)? Please get a USB log as detailed in Information Gathering for VMware Fusion.

Re: Incompatibility with CP210x USB to UART Bridge

4. Nov 25, 2008 5:57 PM in response to: drebes
Click to view etung's profile Guru VMware Employees 11,255 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
Without knowing what to look for in the logs, I suspect it's a bit of both - the driver is probably not releasing the device, but it may be a Fusion bug that the virtual machine dies because of it.

Re: Incompatibility with CP210x USB to UART Bridge

6. Dec 23, 2008 12:33 AM in response to: drebes
Click to view ohana's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Mar 23, 2008

I have the same problem, though with an Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) install.

When the driver is not installed in the OS X host, all works fine, and I can see the GPS device load (in /var/log/messages). However, if the driver is installed in the OS X host, the system freezes, and I also lose access to my bluetooth mouse on the host.


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