Heishi Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Ok this is just to ast that when using a machine in VMware are the usb devices suppose to work, when I insert something in the usb it dosent detect it on the virtual machine so does any one know if this is because of VMware or is to do with my hardware being incompatible this is with tiger 10.4.1, thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10487-quick-question-about-vmware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiebeest Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Ok this is just to ast that when using a machine in VMware are the usb devices suppose to work, when I insert something in the usb it dosent detect it on the virtual machine so does any one know if this is because of VMware or is to do with my hardware being incompatible this is with tiger 10.4.1, thanks for any help. USB used to work under 10.4.1 with my specs (see signature) through VMware.Did you enable usb through VMware's settings? Currently I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.3 (8F1099), which is alot faster than 10.4.1, but usb now doesn't work. Under VMware that is, when I boot natively usb works perfectly... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10487-quick-question-about-vmware/#findComment-66352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heishi Posted March 1, 2006 Author Share Posted March 1, 2006 thanks for your help man I'm currently getting 10.4.3 and updating my VMware to 5.5, i could however find where i'm able to enable usb in the vmware settings, i've looked in preferences and general setting but cant find any mention of being able to enable usb. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10487-quick-question-about-vmware/#findComment-66361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiebeest Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 VMware to 5.5, i could however find where i'm able to enable usb in the vmware settings, i've looked in preferences and general setting but cant find any mention of being able to enable usb. Heishi, What are your hardware specs? Under VMWare--> edit virtual machine settings-->usb controller See here for details, but again this doesn't seem to work under Mac OS X 10.4.3 (8F1099). You should go native for that to work and faster performance. Performance of the GUI is allready quite good under VMware 5.5, but for instance your bus speed is halved compared to native and iTunes/audio, SSE3-->SSE2 emulation, Rosetta, etc act much better native too. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10487-quick-question-about-vmware/#findComment-67804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heishi Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Well man thanks alot managed to get usb to work thanks to you, I needed to 'add it' on the hardware settings (damn i'm a retard). I'm definatly going to install it native once i complete my download of 10.4.3, i dont however feel that much of a performance increase from vmware 5 to 5.5 but i guess i should use xbench to test it properly. Again thanks for all your help wiebeest you helped a neewbie out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10487-quick-question-about-vmware/#findComment-68031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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