[NMLUG] Simulating a USB device for VMware?

[mbarrick at unm.edu (Matthew Barrick)]

havoc wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to simulate a USB device on a Linux
> host so that it is available for a Windows machine running in VMware.
> 
> I have some downloaded DRM music that I would like to burn to CD. VMware
> does not make CD-Rs available to the OS running on it (at least, not to
> Windows). I realized a few days ago that Windows might be able to write
> to a USB-connected CD-R. When I looked in town yesterday, the cheapest
> unit was $100.00, and I'm just not inspired to toss $100.00 at something
> that I will rarely use.
> 
> Any thoughts on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> j

VMware will talk fine with a SCSI burner in my experience. If you setup 
ide-scsi emulation in your kernel, and setup VMware to use the scsi 
version of the device, you should be able to burn from Windows.