Clie Hotsync via VMware?

[rpassos]

I am running Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my PC and I have a virtual machine (VMware) running Windows 2000 under this Linux installation. I want to perform a hotsync with the MS Outlook that is running inside the virtual machine (VMware) through the USB port, but everytime I try, I get the response that the serial (probably because the USB is emulating a serial port...) is in use by the host OS (Linux). I have searched the Net and I found that the hotplug feature of the Linux kernel may be causing the problem. All solutions that I found for this problem involve disabling the hotplug feature through recompiling the Linux kernel.

Has anybody faced the same situation and found a solution? Is recompiling the kernel the only feasible solution? Any suggestion in regarding to editing the hotplug config files in the Linux distro?

Sorry if the question is too Linux biased, but I feel that maybe some of you guys may have faced the same problem. Thanks in advance!

[dmckeown]

I've been using RH8.0 + vmware 3.1 running winXP and I had to dedicate the specific USB port to that vmware session. I did it in the virtual machine configuration within vmware (before you start the virtual machine, where you define memory, disk space, etc.)
It's a little slower than native but seems to work fine!
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