Firewire in WinXP guest?

[zx5000]

I have a WinXP guest running on a Fedora 8 (kernel 2.6.25). In this guest I'd like to install the PreSonus Inspire software but it does not find the device. Is it possible to use the 1394 device in a guest?

The device does work with freebob / ardour but there are no device specific controls available.

TIA

Workstation 6.0.4

[continuum · Accepted solution]

No current VMware product offers Firewire devices to the guest

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[zx5000]

I suspected that might be the case but had hoped it wouldn't.

[joehecht]

>>No current VMware product offers Firewire devices to the guest

Interestingly, I used to be able to add a external firewire drive as a physical drive to a VM, and it worked well (VMWorkstaiton 5.5).

In Workstation 6, I can add it, but I get all sorts of errors when I boot the guest (something about the SCSI device).

I do not know if this is specific toWorkstation 6, or if it is just that I changed machines and perhaps have different firewire chips and Workstation has trouble with them, or if it is that I am using SCSI drives in the guest, or if I need to add the other scsi driver to the guest.

This is very frustrating. I need to use that disk as a physical drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

[continuum]

>Interestingly, I used to be able to add a external firewire drive as a physical drive to a VM, and it worked well (VMWorkstaiton 5.5).

This is a complete different story - in this case the disk is connected as virtual SCSI.

Looks like adding Firewire-disks as SCSI-virtual devices to guests worked nice in WS 5.5.* - I did that too.

Now in WS 6.* this seems to produce problems - there is another recent post who mentioned this ???

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[zx5000]

Is there a place where we can create feature requests?

[asatoran]

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/suggest/product