During beta-phase usbfs is disabled in Ubuntu, so people are reminded to
port their applications. For final release, usbfs will be reenabled
again.
** Changed in: vmware-player (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
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[edgy] vmware-player cannot see usb devices
I am just adding my opinion here,
as only vmware seems to need it, it may make more sense to modify
vmware-player, specially since its source code is available for
modifications :)
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[edgy] vmware-player cannot see usb devices
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62707
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What part other than a small image library which was originally distributed by
Red Hat as GPL is available as source code?
It is still a proprietary product - just because it is free (beer) doesn't make
it Free (freedom).
VMWare need to make the modifications, OR distributors need to ensure it
You must mount /proc/bus/usb which is no longer done by default in Edgy
- the player uses it for usb device detection and enumeration.
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Ahh thanks for that. Muchly appreciated. Any chance this will be turned
on (mounting of usbfs) automatically in the release of Edgy?
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Not for me to say. The situation of /proc/bus/usb vs (/dev/usb/usb +
sysfs + hal) is unclear - the last word from the kernel driver
maintainer was that /proc/bus/usb was not deprecated but everyone else
seems to think it is. Go figure.
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[edgy] vmware-player cannot see usb devices
Well since it has not been officially deprecated, and one of the
packages in the repos requires it to be mounted to work correctly,
wouldn't it make sense to have it automounted from fstab as default?
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[edgy] vmware-player cannot see usb devices
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62707
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