VMWare and iPod question
 

I'm trying to use VMWare Server with Ubuntu as a host and Windows XP as
the guest to access an iPod Nano with iTunes.

I can manage to get the iPod visible to the guest via the USB port.

When I try the iPod restore (it is currently Mac-formatted), the guest
blue screens. The first time Windows/iTunes downloaded the 1.1.3
software for the Nano, then blue screened just as it tried accessing the
iPod. The second time iTunes extracted the 1.1.3 software it previously
downloaded then as it tried accessing the Nano it blue screened again,
leaving the Nano in a state where it was requesting a restore and was
unusable until I did that.

Anyone use VMWare to manage an iPod?

-Bart

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not sure about Vmware guest but it works fine with Virtualbox guest XP,
in fact it works out of the box.


On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 07:41 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> I'm trying to use VMWare Server with Ubuntu as a host and Windows XP as
> the guest to access an iPod Nano with iTunes.
>
> I can manage to get the iPod visible to the guest via the USB port.
>
> When I try the iPod restore (it is currently Mac-formatted), the guest
> blue screens. The first time Windows/iTunes downloaded the 1.1.3
> software for the Nano, then blue screened just as it tried accessing the
> iPod. The second time iTunes extracted the 1.1.3 software it previously
> downloaded then as it tried accessing the Nano it blue screened again,
> leaving the Nano in a state where it was requesting a restore and was
> unusable until I did that.
>
> Anyone use VMWare to manage an iPod?
>
> -Bart
>
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Jad Madi wrote:
> not sure about Vmware guest but it works fine with Virtualbox guest XP,
> in fact it works out of the box.

I googled a bit about ipod use and virtualization, and saw that there
(was some?) trouble with virtualbox and iPods, something about USB
issues. Must be the issues had been recently fixed...?

You have no issues using a Nano with VB, the restore and keeping in sync?

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On Jan 1, 2008 7:41 AM, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote:

When I try the iPod restore (it is currently Mac-formatted), the guest
blue screens.*

I believe there is some issue with USB 2 high speed and VMware.

Try this:

Before starting VMware, do a


sudo rmmod ehci_hcd

This will remove the high speed driver, and is supposed to avoid the blue screen problem.
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John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 7:41 AM, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>
>> When I try the iPod restore (it is currently Mac-formatted), the guest
>> blue screens.
>>
>
> I believe there is some issue with USB 2 high speed and VMware.
>
> Try this:
>
> Before starting VMware, do a
>
> sudo rmmod ehci_hcd
>
> This will remove the high speed driver, and is supposed to avoid the blue
> screen problem.

That's interesting. It seems to work!

Any idea why this works?

What procedure do you normally use when using the iPod then getting your
system "back to par"? When I rmmod'ed it unmounted some 2 USB drives I
had attached to the system. I'm assuming if I disconnect and reconnect
them they'll remount, but at a lower speed?

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Bart,

I've been using VMware / iTunes for about 6 months now - never had a
problem, except when I tried to upgrade to the latest ipod update - I
didn't ever experience a bsod - but it just never would update... was in
some sort of loop and wouldn't ever finish - that could have something
to do with me having Rockbox on mine as well - so the boot function has
changed...

Since I did upgrade to the latest, though, it messed my whole iPod up
and now I can only get the Rockbox side to boot, no apple firmware ; -
but anyway, just wanted to let you know, I have been using your exact
set up without problems up till last night...

Happy New Year! (have a GREAT O-EIGHT!)
Tim

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Tipton, Timothy wrote:
> Bart,
>
> I've been using VMware / iTunes for about 6 months now - never had a
> problem, except when I tried to upgrade to the latest ipod update - I
> didn't ever experience a bsod - but it just never would update... was in
> some sort of loop and wouldn't ever finish - that could have something
> to do with me having Rockbox on mine as well - so the boot function has
> changed...
>
> Since I did upgrade to the latest, though, it messed my whole iPod up
> and now I can only get the Rockbox side to boot, no apple firmware ; -
> but anyway, just wanted to let you know, I have been using your exact
> set up without problems up till last night...
>
> Happy New Year! (have a GREAT O-EIGHT!)

Thanks! I had previous advice (from John) about using rmmod on
ehci_hcd, and it seemed to have both disabled high-speed USB access to
my external hard drives and solved my inability to use iTunes in WinXP
on VMWare Server and my iPod Nano. Oh well...I'll trade high speed
access for now if it means I can use the Nano on my Linux system instead
of having to install Windows on a second machine.

On mine it did a full restore with firmware 1.1.3 and reformatted it for
Windows (I assume it means FAT) then slowly copied over over 100
podcasts. So far, it seems to be working well.

Thanks again for the feedback!

-Bart

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