RedHat 8.0 and USB drives in VMWare

[Makhno]

Hello there,
For legacy reasons I have to use Redhat 8.0, which I'm running from XP
in VMWare. So far everything's ok and though the Redhat install can
access the internet I can't transfer files to and from the host machine.

I've given up trying to get the two to network, so now I'm just trying
to mount a USB stick. In other OS installs this 'just works' but the
VMWare USB stick does not appear to be detected, I just get
'unknown device 15ad:0770' with driver ehci-hcd

There's precious little USB information in dmesg, and mounting /dev/sda1
gets me part of the OS, not the USB drive.

Has anyone got any ideas on what I could do next?

[Joe Zeff]

Post by Makhno
For legacy reasons I have to use Redhat 8.0, which I'm running from XP
in VMWare. So far everything's ok and though the Redhat install can
access the internet I can't transfer files to and from the host machine.

No ideas about the USB issue, but there might be a way around the file
transfer problem. Can you create a partition that's formatted VFAT?
If not, you may be able to install an extra disk formatted this way.
(Unless your transfer needs include huge files, an old, small [by
today's standards] drive will be fine.) XP will see it as a D: drive
and you can edit fstab to mount it at boot. Just be sure to add
umask=000 to the line, or you'll have read only access for some weird
reason. HTH, HAND.

[Makhno]

Post by Joe Zeff
No ideas about the USB issue, but there might be a way around the file
transfer problem. Can you create a partition that's formatted VFAT?

Not easily, as I'm not sure about what machine I'll be working on (as in
the host). It'll certainly be a laptop.