Re: qemu-kvm steels my flash drives

[Todd Chester]

On 11/13/19 5:22 PM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 20:52, Todd Chester via users 
> <[e-mail] > 
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 31
> qemu-kvm-4.1.0-5.fc31.x86_64
>
> If I have a virtual machine running and I insert a
> flash drive into a USB socket, the virtual machine
> steels the flash drive from the host, not that it
> will actually work in the VM, which they don't.
> To get them to work in my VM's I have to add them
> as a piece of hardware to my configuration, then
> they work.
>
> I have to exit all my VM's to be able to see my flash
> drives again from the hosts system (FC31).  This is
> a pain in the neck.
>
> Any way around this?
>
>
> Has the USB controller been assigned as a PCI device to the VM?   If so 
> it would be detached from the host machine.

It just says USB Controller.  I will look more closely
tomorrow to see if there is anything like that.