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Sunday, 20 August 2006

Minor note: VMware, Windows, Palm, and HotSync

darkness @ 17:51:44

I’ve got Palm Desktop installed on XP running under VMware on my FC5 desktop. USB HotSync to my Tungsten C works if (1) you have focus on the VMware window, and (2) you stop the visor module from loading. Here’s the line that accomplishes (2), from /etc/modprobe.conf:

install visor /bin/true

Maybe not the absolute cleanest way; if someone knows a cleaner way to disable a module from loading automatically, let me know.

2 Comments »

  1. Put a single line:

    blacklist visor

    in a new file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-visor (Ubuntu 6.06).

    Comment by Gorazd — Monday, 06 November 2006 @ 02:54:01

  2. […] Additional Palm Desktop suckage! You must put usb.generic.skipSetConfig = “TRUE” in your .vmx file. And don’t forget to disable the visor module. […]

    Pingback by darkness » Reinstalling Windows XP on VMware — Wednesday, 22 November 2006 @ 15:03:44

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