Ubuntu, JTAG and vmware fusion

[Altera_Forum]

OS X 10.5.5 (before apple broke usb) 

Fusion 2.04 Ubuntu 8.10 VM Quartus 9.0  Followed nioswiki for installation. I can configure the FPGA through the GUI or command line, but then I am unable to "nios2-download" the kernel image. It sits there without any feedback after pressing enter. I am then unable to re-configure, quartus reports jtag chain is busy. It takes re-starting the jtagd to be able to configure again, but again I can not download the image. I also have a WindowsXP SP3 VM that works just fine ... but it would be nice to have a single vm for uclinux development.  Any Ideas?   Rick

[Altera_Forum]

in my installation I was not able to have the usbf file system mount automatically at system start. So I use this: 

 ====================================================== file ~/bin/m:# ! /bin/bash mount_usbfs if [ "$1" = "" ]; then zi=zImage; else zi=$1; fi;  if [ "$2" = "" ]; then sof=default.sof; else sof=$2; fi;  echo echo -e "\033[31m ... configuring $sof ...\033[0m"  nios2-configure-sof $sof echo echo -e "\033[31m... downloading $zi ...\033[0m" nios2-download -g $zi ====================================================== file ~/bin/mount_usbfs:# !/bin/bash if mount | grep usbfs; then  echo usbfs is mounted  else  echo mounting usbf  mount_a fi ====================================================== file ~/bin/mount_a:# !/bin/bash sudo mount -a ====================================================== -Michael