Nevion
February 23rd, 2006, 05:25 AM
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but it's the most relavant forum i could find.
Im running an Ubuntu 5.10 (2.6.12-9-386) host with VMWare Server and a Windows 2000 Advanced Server guest OS.
USB devices in general work fine in Ubuntu. I can plug in my USB Memory Stick and Ubuntu will pop up the file explorer, allowing me to use it perfectly.
I tried to get my USB Webcam to work in the Win2K Guest system with no luck. I looked in the Windows device manager and it doesn't list any USB hubs, let alone the Webcam itself.
I made sure that the USB Hub is enabled on VMWare for the guest OS, and as far as i'm aware it should be working fine. I even tried 'VM > Removable Devices > USB' but it lists no devices, just "Empty". I thought that it may have been something to do with the camera, but VMWare reacts the same way with my USB Memory Stick.
I looked around a few logs but no references to USB are ever made (i looked in '/var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log' and '/var/lib/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Advanced Server/vmware.log'), i was expecting some sort of error to be present.
After searching around many forums, i found out that the Dapper version of Ubuntu has a few troubles with VMware due to a lack of a '/proc/bus/usb', but i have checked this and the 'devices' file lists it.
Does anyone have any experiance with this, or maybe a solution?
Here is the output of lsusb:
phoenix@prometheus:/proc/bus/usb$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0572:0041 Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Many thanks in advance.
Im running an Ubuntu 5.10 (2.6.12-9-386) host with VMWare Server and a Windows 2000 Advanced Server guest OS.
USB devices in general work fine in Ubuntu. I can plug in my USB Memory Stick and Ubuntu will pop up the file explorer, allowing me to use it perfectly.
I tried to get my USB Webcam to work in the Win2K Guest system with no luck. I looked in the Windows device manager and it doesn't list any USB hubs, let alone the Webcam itself.
I made sure that the USB Hub is enabled on VMWare for the guest OS, and as far as i'm aware it should be working fine. I even tried 'VM > Removable Devices > USB' but it lists no devices, just "Empty". I thought that it may have been something to do with the camera, but VMWare reacts the same way with my USB Memory Stick.
I looked around a few logs but no references to USB are ever made (i looked in '/var/log/vmware/vmware-serverd.log' and '/var/lib/Virtual Machines/Windows 2000 Advanced Server/vmware.log'), i was expecting some sort of error to be present.
After searching around many forums, i found out that the Dapper version of Ubuntu has a few troubles with VMware due to a lack of a '/proc/bus/usb', but i have checked this and the 'devices' file lists it.
Does anyone have any experiance with this, or maybe a solution?
Here is the output of lsusb:
phoenix@prometheus:/proc/bus/usb$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0572:0041 Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Many thanks in advance.