Hi On July 4, 2004 13:00, Wendell Nichols wrote: > I would report this behavior to Vmware as a bug. They may or may not > accept it as that.
I don't think it is a bug as they do say that VMware does have to have focus in order for h/w detection to work. > How come you prefer to rdesktop in rather than use the vmware console? > Just experimenting? Putting together a product using VMware and rdesktop is a lot cleaner and smoother than switching consoles. I can do it with the console switch, but with a whole lot of associated trouble and hacks to X and the kernel. Martin > wcn > > Martin Glazer wrote: > >On June 30, 2004 08:34, Wendell Nichols wrote: > >>I've done a lot of testing of varous platforms under vmware... you can > >>bounce questions off me.... can't hurt but no promises :-) > > > >Thanks for the offer. Maybe you would know this..... > > > >I am running a Linux host with Windows XP Pro on VMware. I put VMware into > > the background and rdesktop to XP (on the same machine) - All works > > great. > > > >The problem is that when I rdesktop into XP and then put a USB memory > > stick into the PC, XP (VMware) does not recognise the USB stick. The > > problem is that VMware does not have focus at that time and hence the USB > > event is not registered. > > > >What I need to know is if there is any way to force focus to VMware or > > force the USB events to VMware without it having to have focus - all done > > via script or programming. > > > >Any ideas? > > > >Martin > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
