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Can I use my melabs U2 Programmer on a non-Windows platform with VMWare?

April 26, 2017melabs Non-Windows Platform programmer U2 vmware

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Can I use my melabs U2 Programmer on a non-Windows platform with VMWare?

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One of our users was kind enough to return the following procedure, with which he succeeded in making the U2 work with Ubuntu 8.04 and VMWare running a Windows XP VM. 1. Edit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh You will probably need to use sudo (sudo vi /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh) Line 42 – mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs Line 45 – mount –rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb 2. Issue the command to restart that file sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start 3. Edit your VMWare Guest OS settings Add USB Support 4. Restart your VMWare Guest OS 5. BE SURE THE DRIVERS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED FIRST 6. Once your Guest OS is up go to VM –> Removeable devices –> USB Devices and choose your mico Engineering Labs Programer. 7. Windows will then go through and do a found new hardware Top • I’m receive errors when attempting to program with EPIC. See the EPIC Troubleshooting Guide for a list of common errors and solutions. Top • My programmer seems to go through the programming process without error, but the ch