Enabling USB storage accessible by VMware Guest O/S

Under VMware Web console, after adding hardware like USB controller, we will expecting any USB storage plug to Host O/S will be accessible by Guest O/S (select "Connect" at Guest OS). But it prompted error message as below.

Remote USB device error: Remote device disconnected: an error occured while sending data.

Solution:

For Debian-based Host O/S, we may need to mount this USB File system in order to be accessible by Guest O/S, there are 2 ways to do it:

(1) Using below command line, but it is not permanent.

sudo mount -a -t usbfs

(2) Edit the /et/fstab and add the below few lines, we may need to restart or re-mount all.

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0