I have tried plugging in USB sticks, cellphones and modems. There is apparently no USB support (no new device shown by VMWare Player). Linux perfectly sees the devices.
Daniele, that's about the least possible information you could provide. As requested on the bug-filling-in form please provide *at least* the output from emerge --info. Also please state the version of the vmware-modules package you were using, the kernel version you were using, any error messages you encountered and any other information that you think might help.
Sorry Mike, I will post it here. I am also available for specific tests. Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/oss-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X acl acpi alsa apache2 asf bash-completion berkdb cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt curl dbus dga directfb divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash fortran gdbm gif glib gmp gpm gstreamer hal i810 iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k lame ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mono mozilla moznopango mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 msn mudflap mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg ogg123 opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline real reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tga theora threadsafe tiff truetype type1 unicode utf8 vorbis wmw wxwindows x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks, Can you please check the version of your vmware virtual machine's hardware (or attach the .vmx file). It should be listed in the .vmx file as virtualHW.version. Also, please can you attach the output vmware logs after booting the machine and plugging in a USB stick. These can be found in the same directory as the virtual machine...
Created attachment 162097 [details] .vmx for my virtual machine
Absolutely nothing is generated when plugging in the USB stick. only some MKS lost grab (due to the mouse hovering): Aug 03 16:08:37.654: mks| MKS lost grab Aug 03 16:08:38.707: mks| MKS lost grab Aug 03 16:09:17.359: mks| MKS lost grab
Daniele, My guess is that your virtual machine doesn't have USB support. That is, the host can supply USB, but the virtual machine doesn't believe it has any USB ports. USB is just like the sound driver, or a network adaptor, and must be added to the virtual machine before it can be used. To add it, add the following line to your .vmx file: usb.present="TRUE" Please report back here as to whether that fixed your problem or not...
My bad...did not know about that. USB perfectly working now. Thank you!
