Hacking Question Using fusee launcher on Arch Linux esxi VM, how to patch USB?

[GraFfiX420]

Hello, I've been trying to get fusee to launch for days using an Arch VM on my esxi box. I have used this same VM for all development and testing of other people's stuff, and it always works fine.

Since fusee came out, I've been trying to get it to launch from the same VM, but it seems to fail, my guess is it's reaching the limit that the patch that fOf mentioned fixes.

My problem is I'm not sure what to patch under arch, and in almost sure it would require a custom kernel to be compiled after patching.

Does anyone have any ideas how we could get this working so I don't have to change back and forth between systems to test stuff.

 

[nero99]

Do a little searching and you’ll find the Fusée launcher for windows on here

 

[normal19]

fusee doesn't launch linux. You need ShofEL2

 

[DaveLister]

Does your ESXI host actually have USB 3 controllers within it ? IF you use vpshere client can you verify that USB passthrough is enabled and that it is 3.0 ? FG has issues with slower connections. You need the Shofel2 files to boot linux.

Google for soulciphers build, he has the SD pre primed ready to go all that remains then is to git clone the solucipher repository into your linux machine .

As per poster above, spot on FG will not launch linux.

Ps. if you do use the prebuilt image from soulcipher only burn the SD image to a sandisk 32GB - i tried 4 diff brands all failed accept sandisk.

 

[GraFfiX420]

No, the host does not have usb 3.0 controllers, and I'm not using passthrough as the switch is not connected to the esxi host, but rather to my laptop which is connected to the VM via vmware fusion. My assumption is I need the ehci patch that is provided on fOf's blog, but it needs to be altered for arch?

 

[subcon959]

No, the host does not have usb 3.0 controllers, and I'm not using passthrough as the switch is not connected to the esxi host, but rather to my laptop which is connected to the VM via vmware fusion. My assumption is I need the ehci patch that is provided on fOf's blog, but it needs to be altered for arch?

You'll have to do a bit of searching but I've definitely seen someone share the patched kernel on here somewhere.

 

[DaveLister]

No, the host does not have usb 3.0 controllers, and I'm not using passthrough as the switch is not connected to the esxi host, but rather to my laptop which is connected to the VM via vmware fusion. My assumption is I need the ehci patch that is provided on fOf's blog, but it needs to be altered for arch?

Yes such a patch exists, but its for the host operating system windows to pass through usb 2.0 support for the linux OS to host Shofel2 - if using workstation - latest build. (I have not tested it in fusion)

 

[GraFfiX420]

Yes such a patch exists, but its for the host operating system windows to pass through usb 2.0 support for the linux OS to host Shofel2 - if using workstation - latest build. (I have not tested it in fusion)

I'm not sure I'm understanding, the patch is for vmware workstation running under windows for USB pass through, is this correct? Do you happen to have a link to the patch so I can take a look at it?

 

[DaveLister]

I'm not sure I'm understanding, the patch is for vmware workstation running under windows for USB pass through, is this correct? Do you happen to have a link to the patch so I can take a look at it?

https://github.com/fail0verflow/shofel2/blob/master/linux-ehci-enable-large-ctl-xfers.patch

Taken from
https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2018/shofel2/

 

[GraFfiX420]

https://github.com/fail0verflow/shofel2/blob/master/linux-ehci-enable-large-ctl-xfers.patch

Taken from
https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2018/shofel2/

Yeah I'm already aware of that patch, thanks anyway.

 

[SkillingCat]

https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/41b12362cc4d8c539dc441d75155f2e9#file-ehci_patch-py This one worked perfectly for me.

 

[Dmafra]

How to apply this patch?

 

[SkillingCat]

Just open up a terminal, make sure you go to the folder where your patch is located, then type sudo python
ehci_patch.py (assuming you already have python installed, which you should have).
At the end it should give you an error but that's fine it should work anyway.

 

[Dmafra]

With this usb 2.0 will act like an usb 3.0?
So can I install a linux distro

 

[The Real Jdbye]

No, the host does not have usb 3.0 controllers, and I'm not using passthrough as the switch is not connected to the esxi host, but rather to my laptop which is connected to the VM via vmware fusion. My assumption is I need the ehci patch that is provided on fOf's blog, but it needs to be altered for arch?

Are you sure the VM will even see devices that are not connected directly to the host? I doubt that would work.

 

[Deleted User]

https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/41b12362cc4d8c539dc441d75155f2e9#file-ehci_patch-py first thanks for that patch ... will it work on VMware Fusion ? or would i need virtualbox ?

 

[SkillingCat]

Honestly idk, I used it directly on Debian because I already had it installed on my computer, but as I heard it seems like VirtualBox doesn't allow usb passthrough, so you should go with VMware fusion.

 

[Deleted User]

Honestly idk, I used it directly on Debian because I already had it installed on my computer, but as I heard it seems like VirtualBox doesn't allow usb passthrough, so you should go with VMware fusion.

thanks alot buddy i am on osx and its pretty hard to install linux without messing with the osx filesystem so i am using vmware fusion

 

[GraFfiX420]

Are you sure the VM will even see devices that are not connected directly to the host? I doubt that would work.

Yes, you may not have used esxi, but it definitely will facilitate a usb connection from client to host or host to client.

I'm going to try Retroids patch, seems to be working.

 

[Shadow LAG]

Or you could just: TegraRCMsmash + WSL + Custom Switch Filter Driver