Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> More Diagnosis:
> 
> I bought an OLPC in the buy one/give one so i just tried the USB stick
> on the real machine and it works fine.
> 
> So it just my emulated image that is refusing to mount it for some reason :(
> 
> I'd really like to keep using VMWare.  On my machine its both more
> convenient and much faster then qemu even with the kqemu wedge.  (its
> a 64 bit dual core, but you can't run qemu in 64 bit mode with kqemu )
> 
> Has anyoen else gotten emulation under vmware recognizing USB memory
> stick drives?

You need to tell vmware to do this and take away the device from the
underlying operating system that vmware is running on.

See the vmware documentation for how to do this properly, it's not an
OLPC image issue, but rather a vmware one.

good luck,

greg k-h