Re: Coexisting with vmware?

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le mercredi 08 décembre 2004 à 12:24 -0500, David A. Desrosiers a
écrit :
> > 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 ;)

As soon as its source is available, I'll be happy to package it and
upload it on cooker :)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
Mandrakesoft