Hi, I'm running Parallels on a Suse 9.3 and Windows Xp Pro. as a guest system. I need a USB Fritz card within the Windows. When I start Parallels as root Win Xp finds the USB Device. With normal user rights the USB device isn't working. I've read the help about this problem, but I don't get what I have to do. Can someone please tell me how I can make the needed changes to the USB Devices ? Regards, Kai Teuber
To fix the issue please do the following: 1. Create a group and include into it users who have to have access to USB devices. 2. In the /etc/fstab file edit the string that mounts the usbfs. Devgid parameter should contain the identifier of the group created in the previous step. usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=<USB gid>,devmode=0664 0 0 3. Open your /etc/init.d/boot.localfs, locate section with a comment "Mount local filesystems in '/etc/fstab/'", add line modprobe usbcore before the line `mount -av -t nonfs,noproc,nodevpts,nosmbfs -O no_netdev`. 4. Restart your Linux primary OS.
Hi Nadine! I am using Ubuntu and tried to follow your guide. But i faced a problem. On my system there is no "/etc/init.d/boot.localfs". What can i do now?? xsenon
xsenon, adding modprobe command in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs is not necessary you may add this command in any startup scripts according to your distro or even run 'modprobe usbcore' manually
