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No success on attaching USB pen drive to VM in raw mode

Hello,

There hadn't been discussions this forum and these matters recent time.

I follow the instructions in KB 2097401 in order to attach physical USB pen drive to virtual machine in raw mode.

Bootable USB is targeted, the creation process includes changes in MBS, therefore I think the VM needs access

to whole physical drive, not only to particular partition. The process of creating bootable usb drive uses Linux scripts

therefore can't be accomplished on OS X host.

Actually it is card-reader SD-only USB 3.0, Sandisk - no idea if this concerns - with one partition formatted to FAT32 on it.

Partitioning scheme - DOS.

All this is made in following env. Fusion Pro 8.0 on OS X 10.9. Client system is Ubuntu current LTS.

OS X user accomplishing this task does not carry the administrator rights. It is Standard user.

Following steps were completed on host

Insert pen drive into Mac USB port

The assigned  /dev/diskX found  out

Partition unmount, drive no eject ( host OS X Disk Utility )

su admin

sudo chmod o+rwx   // as originally  ls -alh   reads brw-r-----

exit // back to Standard user

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk2 fullDevice vms/U01/U01.vmwarevm/usbpenraw ide

Adapt VM's .vmx file according to elaborations in KB

   sata1:0  used and not conflicting with old entries over there

Start VM

Check availability to USB pen from guest using Ubuntu GUI Disks app

Results: USB pen drive not presented, also if to use GParted.

For any hints thanks in advance.

Vladko

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