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Re: [LUG] Parallels VM

 

Thanks for reply
Yes am running parallels on linux host. I think it has something to do with groups 
and usb permission.
Aaron


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Sewell" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Parallels VM
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:08:57 +0000
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 09:20 +0000, wrote:
> >
> > Posted by "Tom Moore" <aaronmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Happy new year to each and all.
> > I'm having trouble getting parallels to connect to USB 
> > periferals.  I get 'Unable to connect USB device to virtual 
> > machine!'  I know it is a permissions problem because it works 
> > okay from root.  Am using suse 10.0 which parallels says is 
> > compatable.  Gonna need some fairly simple instructions!
> >
> > Here is /etc/fstab file
> >
> > /dev/sda2            /                    reiserfs   
> > acl,user_xattr        1 1
> > /dev/sda3            /home                ext3       
> > acl,user_xattr        1 2
> > /dev/sda1            swap                 swap       defaults     
> >          0 0
> > proc                 /proc                proc       defaults     
> >          0 0
> > sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto       
> >          0 0
> > usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      
> > devgid=1000,devmode=0664               0 0
> > devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     
> > mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
> > /dev/sda4            /data1               auto       noauto,user  
> >          0 0
> > /dev/dvdram          /media/dvdram        subfs      
> > noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
> > /dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      
> > noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
> > none                 /subdomain       subdomainfs noauto         0 0
> > ~
> > And here is /etc/group file which does not seem to mention usb?
> >
> > video:x:33:aaron
> > games:x:40:
> > xok:x:41:
> > trusted:x:42:
> > modem:x:43:
> > named:!:44:
> > ftp:x:49:
> > postfix:!:51:
> > maildrop:!:59:
> > man:x:62:
> > sshd:!:65:
> > mailman:!:67:
> > ldap:!:70:
> > ntadmin:!:71:
> > messagebus:!:101:
> > haldaemon:!:102:
> > privoxy:!:103:
> > quagga:!:104:
> > radiusd:!:105:
> > tomcat:!:106:
> > nobody:x:65533:
> > nogroup:x:65534:nobody
> > users:x:100:
> > "/etc/group" 45L, 574C  Any help would set my new year on a fair wind
> > Thanx
> > Aaron
> 
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> I've never really used Parallels much (I prefer a genuine install, 
> but I can see how having multiple OSs running concurrently is a 
> good idea), but are you running the Parallels application on a 
> Linux machine?  If so, it might be a permissions thing for the USB 
> devices themselves on the host OS rather than the guest OS.
> 
> Cheers.
> Grant.
> 
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