I'm using VMWare Player 5 with a Windows XP installation to support a camera (Canon Powershot G1) that does not have a driver for any more-recent version of Windows.
This was working for a while, but now it does not. I don't remember if I had to configure anything a certain way to get it working initially.
There is no icon for the camera in the Player toolbar where other configurable devices (optical drive, etc) appear. XP does not detect the camera. The host OS (Win Vista) does, but as I said there is no driver (native or from Canon) for it. It does not seem to matter whether I connect/power on the camera before or after XP is running in Player. Likewise it does not seem to matter whether I disable the non-functional entry in Vista Device Manager.
The camera itself seems fine and still works if I plug it into a PC running XP.
How do I troubleshoot this?