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grub4dos usb 2.0 driver does not work in VMWare
If you create a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Player, and attach a bootable grub4dos ISO to the VM's CD, it will boot to the ISO\CD grub4dos menu. You can then attach a USB flash drive in a USB 2.0 port to the VM using the Removable Devices menu. If you boot to a plop ISO, plop will boot to USB drive. However, if you boot to a grub4dos ISO, and use the grub4dos usb --init command, it does not detect the USB drive. Is it possible to make the grub4dos usb driver work under VMWare? The reason is that the plop driver is a read-only driver and so cannot be used with grub4dos if it writes to the USB drive (e.g. default command or dd or cat --replace or partnew, etc.) and so plop cannot be used with Easy2Boot. The test ISO I used is here https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqlrQcdsFA-Km0Yim5HUlIkiTy7c It first tries to use grub4dos usb --init and if it fails it runs Plop. https://youtu.be/1ka1PVGT9mw
P.S. If you boot to the Plop ISO and then load grub4dos 0.4.6a (23/12/2017) and then run usb --init it works! and it finds a USB drive. But it does not work if you boot to a grub4dos ISO and run usb --init. So perhaps plop is initialising the USB controller registers in some way that then makes the grub4dos driver work? Using USB_BOOT_v2.1 boot in VMWare to the USB_BOOT_v2.1.iso attach Easy2Boot grub4dos bootable USb drive reboot to Plop! (grub4dos usb --init fails) boot to USB drive (Easy2boot or just grub4dos) run usb --init from grub4dos and it works.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqlrQcdsFA-Ko0ENBgAZ821vwj-u This is the same version with grub4dos 23/12/2017.
Hi, but the grub4dos USB driver DOES work in VMWare. but only if you first load the Plop! driver.
i.e. under VMWare
- Boot to grub4dos ISO and run usb --init - FAIL
- Boot to Plop! ISO and choose USB option - BOOTS
- Boot to Plop! - choose USB to boot to grub4dos USB drive - run usb --init - WORKS
