- #AUTO RUNNING USB FOR MAC HOW TO#
- #AUTO RUNNING USB FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#
- #AUTO RUNNING USB FOR MAC MAC OS X#
So I’m still trying to figure out how to get this to work. When I connect an external USB, it says that someone else is trying to access it (I assume the Mac). By finding this site, I found out I needed to go into this configuration editor and select “Connect USB Devices automatically.” However, the problem’s still not solved. I’m still struggling with getting my Parallels to see the external HD that I’m connecting.īefore, I couldn’t get Parallels to notice the external HD when I connected it. I only have a checkbox under connection options that says: Connect USB Devices automatically.
Is your advice more geared towards the (at the time of this post) Parallels 3? Because I’m running Parallels 2 and I don’t see the options to choose between these 3: That should get you going a bit more efficiently with Parallels. Interestingly, when hooked up this way, the phone doesn’t appear to charge from the USB connection, but when I release it from Parallels (by simply selecting it in this Devices menu) it syncs up with iTunes on my Mac and charges from the USB cable too. If the peripheral is checked, Parallels owns it, and if it’s not checked, the Mac operating system owns it:Īs you can see, Parallels has stolen control of my Apple iPhone from the Mac operating system and the Mac side can’t see it.
#AUTO RUNNING USB FOR MAC MAC OS X#
A good third alternative, by the way, is to simply choose the option “Ask me what to do”, which means that every time it detects a new USB device, you’ll have the option of letting Parallels have it or let Mac OS X have it.įinally, if you are running Parallels and you find that your USB devices are being captured by Mac OS X but not your virtual guest OS, you can also go to the Devices menu, find the peripheral in question, and choose it to have Parallels wrest control from Mac OS X and hand it to your guest operating system. On mine you can see that I have my Connection Options set to “Connect to Guest OS”: yours is set to “Connect to Mac OS” instead. To change it, you need to shut down your virtual machine, if it’s running, and then choose Edit –> Virtual Machine…, within which you’ll find one of the options is: Sounds like you have this option turned off. In the Preferences for Parallels you can specify whether you want USB devices to be auto-connected upon detection or not. The USB device question is straightforward too. Your Control key might well be labeled “Ctrl” on your MacBook Pro, as it is with mine, of course. I found that out by actually reading their documentation (imagine!) after puzzling through the problem for far too many hours. The secret is to hold down the Control-Shift buttons when you click on the mouse within Parallels.
Plug in an external two-button mouse, of course, and the right click just works, but within Parallels?
#AUTO RUNNING USB FOR MAC FOR MAC OS X#
I have to admit that I was stymied for a long time about how to right-click within Parallels, a great virtualization application available for Mac OS X that lets you run Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and a variety of other operating systems within Mac OS X.
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