Re: USB drives in VM Fusion

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Ah ha! I figured this out. So one thing that you might have to do in Fusion at least if you're running XP is to go to the add new hardware wizard in control panel and add your USB host controller. This will make the drives pop up quite nicely. Then you can deal with those obnoxious NTFS drives.

Re: USB drives in VM Fusion

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Hi Simon, Sadly, while I saw an option that said connect the Seagate Portable RSS under USB, no acknowledgement was made by the XP virtual machine of its existence. Have you any other ideas? Friendly, Chris On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Simon F wrote: > Ok If it's connecting to the mac, dis conne

RE: USB drives in VM Fusion

2010-07-08 Thread Simon F
Ok If it's connecting to the mac, dis connect (eject ) it from the mac, but leave it actually plugged in to the machine. And then go into the virtual machine menu of the vm fusion software and find the USB devices option in the menu and make sure the USB drive is enabled within vm fusion. Hope th

Re: USB drives in VM Fusion

2010-07-07 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi chris. When in VM Fusion are you in full screen? If so change it by doing control command and enter (hope that's right as I'm not sitting in front of my mac). Then you should have a list of USB devices which you can connect or disconnect. If you find what drive you need then press enter on i