zed wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Thinkpad T60 on which the base OS is WindowsXP. Under emulation
> I
> also run Virtual Acorn RiscPC-ADJ. Today I installed openSUSE 10.3 under
> VMWare Server1.03. Installation was without incident and I'm up and
> running.
> However, openSUSE does not recognise any of my three USB drives > hoo!>
> so I cannot transfer data from my desktop machine so that both are
> synchronised.
>
> I seem to remember there was a similar problem with openSUSE 10.2 but
> thought it had been overcome with the current version.
>
> Any advise welcome.
>
> Regards from New Zealand on a very pleasant Wednesday afternoon.
>
> David
> --
> David Love
Try vmplayer 2.x, it resolves the usb problem, also the shared folder
functionality allows sharing with the desktop so that the usb's are not
required (ps you could do this with the cd/dvd burner)
--
Suse 10.3 x64, Kde 3.5.8, Gnome 2.20.0, Opera 9.x weekly

Bill P wrote:
> zed wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Thinkpad T60 on which the base OS is WindowsXP. Under emulation
>> I
>> also run Virtual Acorn RiscPC-ADJ. Today I installed openSUSE 10.3 under
>> VMWare Server1.03. Installation was without incident and I'm up and
>> running.
>> However, openSUSE does not recognise any of my three USB drives >> hoo!>
>> so I cannot transfer data from my desktop machine so that both are
>> synchronised.
>>
>> I seem to remember there was a similar problem with openSUSE 10.2 but
>> thought it had been overcome with the current version.
>>
>> Any advise welcome.
>>
>> Regards from New Zealand on a very pleasant Wednesday afternoon.
>>
>> David
>> --
>> David Love
> Try vmplayer 2.x, it resolves the usb problem, also the shared folder
> functionality allows sharing with the desktop so that the usb's are not
> required (ps you could do this with the cd/dvd burner)
Does VirtualBox also have this sharing capability?
Up to now I was thinking I had to run a samba server to share folders on a host
10.3 with a guest WinXP.

T

toby989@hotpop.com wrote:

> Bill P wrote:
>> zed wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a Thinkpad T60 on which the base OS is WindowsXP. Under
>>> emulation I
>>> also run Virtual Acorn RiscPC-ADJ. Today I installed openSUSE 10.3
>>> under VMWare Server1.03. Installation was without incident and I'm up
>>> and running.
>>> However, openSUSE does not recognise any of my three USB drives >>> hoo!>
>>> so I cannot transfer data from my desktop machine so that both are
>>> synchronised.
>>>
>>> I seem to remember there was a similar problem with openSUSE 10.2 but
>>> thought it had been overcome with the current version.
>>>
>>> Any advise welcome.
>>>
>>> Regards from New Zealand on a very pleasant Wednesday afternoon.
>>>
>>> David
>>> --
>>> David Love
>> Try vmplayer 2.x, it resolves the usb problem, also the shared folder
>> functionality allows sharing with the desktop so that the usb's are not
>> required (ps you could do this with the cd/dvd burner)
> Does VirtualBox also have this sharing capability?
> Up to now I was thinking I had to run a samba server to share folders on a
> host 10.3 with a guest WinXP.
>
> T
supposed to, I didn't have great luck with vbox (ymmv) as it couldn't use my
existing vmware vmx image

this may help http://en.opensuse.org/VirtualBox
--
Suse 10.3 x64, Kde 3.5.8, Gnome 2.20.0, Opera 9.x weekly

Bill P wrote:

> zed wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Thinkpad T60 on which the base OS is WindowsXP. Under
> > emulation I also run Virtual Acorn RiscPC-ADJ. Today I installed
> > openSUSE 10.3 under VMWare Server1.03. Installation was without incident
> > and I'm up and running.
> > However, openSUSE does not recognise any of my three USB drives > > hoo!>
> > so I cannot transfer data from my desktop machine so that both are
> > synchronised.
> >
> > I seem to remember there was a similar problem with openSUSE 10.2 but
> > thought it had been overcome with the current version.
> >
> > Any advise welcome.
> >
> > Regards from New Zealand on a very pleasant Wednesday afternoon.
> >
> > David -- David Love
> Try vmplayer 2.x, it resolves the usb problem, also the shared folder
> functionality allows sharing with the desktop so that the usb's are not
> required (ps you could do this with the cd/dvd burner)

Thanks Bill. I will try that and report back.

David
--
David Love