Forum: USBoot

Hello

found this on the vmware site:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/118175
Hope it is helping whenever vmware is not showing the usb disk

below part of the forum post:

Hello all!
I believe to have found the answer to our problems here.
If you scroll down you will see this script...
## Usb configuration.
## Activate usb on system startup.
usb.present = "TRUE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "TRUE"
Just enter that into your .vmx file. When you start your vm back up you should see the option under vm>devices.
The link also has some other snidbits that could be useful.
Enjoy!



that is not enough - you need these lines for USB 2 support
virtualHW.version = "6"
usb.present = "true"
ehci.present = "true"
or
virtualHW.version = "7"
usb.present = "true"
ehci.present = "true


This topic helped me reslove the problem of pixart imaging webcam can't work under windows xp home edition guest os in vmware player 2.5.2 in ubuntu 9.04 host. Before this, it always reminded me such as "can't find a usb2.0 high speed port" and "the device be used by other applications or other users". That annoying me two days. The solution is just add a line: ehci.present = "true" into my configure file generated by www.easyvmx.com. Very useful topic, thanks!
And also thanks Vmware create so great product for us. I am using vmware player, that's enough for me now.