Re: Coexisting with vmware?

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

> I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 build-8848, and this doesn't work
> for me. Whether I rmmod just visor or visor and usbserial, VMWare
> pops up this message immediately when I press the hotsync button:

	I can confirm that this definately does NOT happen on my 4.5.2
build of VMWare using udev + hotplug on Debian Unstable under 2.6.8.1,
2.6.9, and 2.6.10-rc2-mm4. When the VM has focus (i.e. the mouse is
_inside_ the VM, not focus on the window itself), the Palm happily
syncrhonizes with Outlook and friends.

	The visor driver gets loaded a few seconds after the VM sees
the connection, but its too late, VMWare has already bound to the
socket, and is communicating with the Palm at that point.

	Another solution is just to use LANSync and sync to your
VMware instance (Palm Desktop) via that, instead of a local sync. You
could just use pi-nredir -p /dev/ttyUSBx (with visor loaded) and
configure your Palm to point to the vmnet1 IP address, and set HotSync
Manager to listen only for Network connections (disable USB in HotSync
Manager's setup). I've done this before, back in the VMWare 3.x days
when it would NOT let me sync with the visor driver loaded.

	Both solutions will work fine. In fact, I've used these same
two approaches to solve this same exact problem for dozens of users on
the VMWare newsgroups over the last year or two, and the LANsync trick
for a year or two before that.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod gnu-designs com
http://gnu-designs.com