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VMware Fusion and Lion USB not working

Dale — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:59:38 +0000

I upgraded my Mac to OS X 10.7 Lion the other day and found that USB devices no longer worked.

They appeared in device manager saying they could not start.

I found the following fix on the VMware forums :

You can check if you have non standard permissions by opening a terminal and running:

ls -ld /

You should see output like this:

drwxr-xr-x 53 root wheel 1870 Aug 4 12:43 /

If the permissions are different than above you can reset them using the following steps (for Fusion 3.1.3):

Shutdown Fusion.

In a terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

sudo -s
chown root:wheel /
chmod 755 /
Reboot

Start Fusion and try connecting a USB device.

Source : VMware Forum

Plex and Snow Leopard

Dale — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:26:00 +0000

I upgraded my mac mini to Snow Leopard last week. Had to go back to Leopard as Plex doesn’t work properly. The remote is all over the place. Playback stutters. Not good.

Also within 20 mins of having it up and running Photo Booth Crashed!!!! It never has before.

Snow Leopard released on August 28th

Dale — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:08:33 +0000

Been reading up on Snow Leopard. Apple have certainly bigged it up and made it look very impressive.

Lets hope that it lives up to the hype and most importantly my order from Apple arrives shortly after the 28th.