iPod touch syncing
This week VMware released updated versions of their Workstation and Player products. This fixes a long standing issue with USB support for the iPod touch and iPhone. I’m now finally able to sync my iPod touch from iTunes in a virtual machine! Just don’t try to update your firmware from a virtual machine.. It fails and renders the device unusable until you flash it from a native (non-virtualized) iTunes :S
Not being able to sync my iPod touch was one of the major regressions I had since I dumped Windows. It still is not the best possible solution, because I still need Windows in a virtual machine for this to work. Unfortunately there hasn’t been much progress with regard to native Linux support for these things without jailbreaking them..
If I’m going to buy a new portable music player some day it sure as hell isn’t going to be an Apple product, unless they open up and allow other people to interface with them. If you are a Linux user: Don’t buy one of these things. I know they’re sexy and all, but really .. don’t!
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Last week i bought a nice iPhone. As a Linux user i use VirtualBox as a virtualization platform. This platform is facing the samen issues as Vmware. Im glad to hear Vmware has come up with a solution regarding the USB synchronisation process. Unfortunately im forced to use Vmware as i would rather stay with VirtualBox.
Verder alles goed?
I have an ipod touch and just isntalled the latest vmware server in Ubuntu 8.04. I get to the point where virtual windows recognizes my ipod but, itunes never acknowledges it. How did you perform a sync?
Could someone update me on the iPod Touch issue? How does Vmware handle the iPod Touch?
Thanks