On Wednesday 04 May 2005 04:24, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > Hi, > My question is how to access USB disk from WinXP guest on FC3 host? The > FC3 's plug-play feature is extremely good for USB disks. > > However, when I try to access the USB disk by > > VM => USB port1 , There is a error messge saying > 'The specific device appears to be claimed by another driver > (usb-storage) on the host operation systrem which emans that the device > may be in use. VMware Workstation cannot safely take control of the > device untill the host driver is unloaded' > > What I really want is that the USB disk is accessable by both the host > and guest operation system. Any sugestions are welcome. > > Yuandan I am not completely sure, but I guess that you cannot use USB disk (or any other disk) simultaneously by host and client system, due to the potential hazard of simultaneous writing to the drive. See the VMware documentation about this. Now, you didn't specify what type is you USB disk -- is it the flash-memory type, or an external HD? If it is the flash-memory, you should unmount it form host (linux). I generally don't use automount feature for USB, so I just plug the flash-memory while vmware client has focus, and all is well. If it is an external HD that should be mounted to the host system all the time, then you should not mount it to the client at all, but rather share the drive via samba and use it over virtual network to access it from client (at least that's what I do). HTH, Best regards, Marko
