Guest magic77 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 I'm using OSX 10.12 for Development purposes and need to have a iPhone 6 connected to the VM. But i' m running into issues. My Host System is Ubuntu 17.04, VM Tools are installed, VMware Workstation 12 (latest Version) This is what i have done: Start VM with OSX Plugin iPhone to USB Now VMware asks me to connect iPhone This is what happens, after i plug in the iPhone Some moments later this Question appears But still no iPhone available. Can somebody help me with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nawcom Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 It would help if you shared what Linux distro you're using as I can't tell you if this solution will fix things. Let me know. I'm assuming yours is some Debian variant. Have just tried unmounting your iPhone from Nautilus right before attaching it to your VM? You should always try the basics first. If you never plan on communicating with your iPhone on your Linux host machine and will just be doing it through your macOS VM then you can prevent usbmuxd from loading, which is what is preventing VMware from accessing the device. usbmuxd is a service specific to iOS devices in Linux. Run this in terminal: sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules This blank file should prevent usbmuxd from launching when you plug in your iPhone from now on. As for the second error, that's the Nautilus file manager automatically mounting your iPhone for photo access. If you don't care about that, you can run this: sudo chmod a-x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor that will take away executable permissions for all users so the next time it automatically tries to run it when you plug in your iPhone or any kind of camera plugged into USB, it will fail to mount. There is also an option in Nautlius gconf settings to disable automounting in general, but I think this is the easier way to do it. To undo what you just did in case you want to re-enable it for whatever reason: sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules sudo chmod a+x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest magic77 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Hello nawcom, you're right, i need the iPhone connection only for the VM. Now my iPhone is shown in the List of the System Profiler under USB, with this Information Product ID: 0x12a8 Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 7.02 Serial Number: Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Location ID: 0x02100000 / 1 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 500 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 But when i start iTunes, there is no Device available. Is this a "Trust this Computer" Bug, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nawcom Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Shut down the VM and under Virtual Machine Settings, Select the USB controller on the Hardware tab and there should be an option for USB compatibility. Set that to USB 2.0 and see if that makes a difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest magic77 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 It was setup already with "USB 2.0", "Automatically connect new USB Device" and "Show all USB input devices" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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