Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
>>     
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>>> 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 )
>>>       
Side note: kqemu does work under 64-bit Linux (it's what I use to
emulate on my AMD64 box).
>>> Has anyoen else gotten emulation under vmware recognizing USB memory
>>> stick drives?
>>>       
Unfortunately my vmware installation is hosed (kernel hangs on every
attempted start-up).
...
> It deosnt seem to be mounting the CD-Rom either, which suggests to me
> that it could be an issue with the automounter configuration in the
> ship2 build.
>   
AFAIK there's no CDRom support in any of the builds, there not being a
CDRom on the hardware.
> Is that what everyone else is usign for development? I assume that
> matches whats actually on my OLPC?
>   
It is possible to see mount failures under emulation.  If lsusb is
saying you have the usb device attached to the virtual machine you can
try manually mounting the device:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/FAQ#How_do_I_mount_a_USB_drive.3F

As for what people use, some are on Joyride, others on Ship.2 or
Update.1 images.  Entirely up to the developer.  A Ship.2 image should
be fine for most development uses.  Joyride lets you track changes more
closely if you need that.

HTH,
Mike

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