August 20, 2006

Minor note: VMware, Windows, Palm, and HotSync

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.

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  1. November 6, 2006
    Gorazd said...

    Put a single line:

    blacklist visor

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

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  2. November 22, 2006
    darkness » Reinstalling Windows XP on VMware said...

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

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