These are the steps to use if you are using Vmware Workstation 6.5, with a Windows XP guest, and your PDA won’t sync.

First: You need to find the VID and PID of the device you are trying to connect

To do this, all you need to do is attempt to sync your device.  When that fails, cd into the directory that has the files for the guest you are trying to sync to.  Look at the vmware.log file, there will be a line like this

vmx| USB: Found device [name:Palm\ Handheld vid:0830 pid:0061 path:5/1 speed:full family:vendor autoclean:1]

Note the VID = 0830 and the PID = 0061.

Next: Edit the vmx file for the windows XP guest and add the following line to it

usb.quirks.device0 = “0×0830:0×0061 skip-setconfig, skip-reset”

The 0×0830 and the 0×0061 will be replaced with the VID:PID that was in the vmware.log file.  the 0x MUST come before the numbers so that vmware knows it is a HEX value.  The values in the logfile are HEX numbers.  Also, the number after “device” in the device name “usb.quirks.device0″ can be any number from 0-N but there can not be any gaps in numbering.

Finally: Save the file and then shut down your VM if it was already running, then start it back up, and try to sync your device.