romka@linux

Solution by TJ from launchpad bugs:

Create a new group “vm” and add users that require USB access for VMs to it:

sudo addgroup vm
sudo addgroup $USER vm

Log-out/log-in to effect the new group membership.

Add a udev rule to assign USB devices to the vm group:

# Virtual Machine hypervisor access to USB devices
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ENV{DEVTYPE}==”usb_device”, GROUP=”vm”
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, GROUP=”vm”

Save the file as /etc/udev/rules.d/41-vm-usb.rules and reload udevd:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

I’ve got fed up with VMWare issues and testing KVM/QEMU which seem to be a bit more proper way of running virtual machines under linux. I enjoy the possibility of running it from command line and using VNC connection to the Virtual PC. some tricks are still needed:

1) had to disable “Enhance pointer precision” in Pointer Options in XP guest to align cursors…

VMWare and kvm is not going to leave in peace ) If kvm modules are loaded – vmware virtual machine is not going to start… To start it:
sudo modprobe -r kvm*