Here is the xml I have for my Fedora 10 guest machine running in my Fedora 10 host machine.
Question: if I plug a USB flash drive into the host, how do I make that accessible (as in readable and writable) to the guest machine? Look at the <hostdev... > ebtry I have coded below. I must be doing something wrong because when I:
*plug the flash drive in to the host *verify the drive is mounted on the host *start the guest
the guest cannot see that flash drive. Is the xml formatted incorrectly? Or do I have to do something in the guest? Or do I need to plug the flash drive in after starting the guest?
<domain type='kvm'> <name>fedora10x64</name> <uuid>33e7e731-4e18-dd90-222e-b1df83a76cad</uuid> <memory>2097152</memory> <currentMemory>2097152</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset="localtime"/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/fedora10x64.img'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </console> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'> <source> <vendor id='0x067b'/> <product id='0x2517'/> </source> </hostdev> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' keymap='en-us'/> <sound model='es1370'/> </devices> </domain>
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Thanks much!
Bob Cochran