This problem still exists in VMWare Workstation 5.5.2. VMWare expects usbfs to be mounted somewhere, although the mountpoint is configurable. And really, why shouldn't they expect it to be mounted? I spent a good hour trying to figure this one out and when I found that usbfs wasn't mounted I was pretty surprised. It's like not having /proc.
This problem still exists in VMWare Workstation 5.5.2. VMWare expects usbfs to be mounted somewhere, although the mountpoint is configurable. And really, why shouldn't they expect it to be mounted? I spent a good hour trying to figure this one out and when I found that usbfs wasn't mounted I was pretty surprised. It's like not having /proc.