Yutaka,

VMware workstation 6 (for windows) fully supports USB 2.0 in VMs. I
believe workstation version 5 supports USB 1.0. Neither will support USB
at all if you enable the "ESX server" compatibility option when you
create the VM.

I am able to copy to USB thumb drives and CF cards in a USB card reader
from FreeBSD 6.2 in a VM running on VMware 6.0 workstation. VMware won't
even let me add a USB device to a VM with "ESX server" compatility
enabled.

				...jgm





-----Original Message-----
From: Yutaka Sato [mailto:pficabdyi-mxhgu4ysf33w.ml@delegate.org] 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:28 PM
To: pficabdyi-mxhgu4ysf33w.ml@delegate.org
Cc: feedback@delegate.org; Joe Moore; pficabdyi-mxhgu4ysf33w.ml@delegate.org
Subject: Re: [DeleGate-En:3765] minimum neccessary libs

Joe,

In message
<_A3764@delegate-en.ML_> on
06/19/07(02:40:53)
you "Joe Moore" <pvyhabdyi-mxhgu4ysf33w.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
 |I am not aware of any minibsd images for vmware, but I haven't really
 |looked very hard for them either. 
 |
 |I am using a FreeBSD install on vmware workstation to produce image
 |files that can be copied via "dd" to a compact flash or USB flash
disk.
 |I should have a good image later this week. I'll try to create a new
vm,
 |boot it from the flash drive and then dd back to a partitioned and
 |labeled virtual disk. If that works I'll put the vmware image up on my
 |ftp server for you.
 |
 |Or, if you have a flash drive I can generate a disk image for that and
 |you could boot right from that. I just need to know how many sectors
are
 |on your flash disk. The minibsd image is around 8 MB.

Thank you for your offer.  I have several free USB disks including 32MB
flash and 4GB/8GB HDD.  Can I use them for VMware, on Windows ?

Cheers,
Yutaka
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