Re: Coexisting with vmware?

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

> And the problem for the original poster, as he mentioned previously,
> was that the visor module was getting reloaded on every sync
> (presumably via hotplug, which you've previously implied you don't
> use).

	This doesn't happen if you give the VM focus. It was a problem
in version 3.x of VMWare, but 4.x works this way. I've got a system
here with hotplug, and it works perfectly like that, because VMWare
grabs the device when the VM has focus, so hotplug can't load the
module to communicate with it.

> It is necessary to comment out the line from the running kernel's
> modules.usbmap file that refers to the USB device you want to
> prevent triggering the visor modprobe.  Either that, or disable
> hotplug, which mightn't suit everyone.

	Or use pilot-link 0.12.x with the native libusb support, and
stop using the visor module altogether ;)


David A. Desrosiers
desrod gnu-designs com
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