Re: qemu-kvm steels my flash drives

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/14/19 8:51 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote:
> 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?

If you are using the Virtual Machine Manager?

On the top Menu select "Virtual Machine--->Redirect USB Device" and uncheck the flash drive in question
to release it and return it to the host system.