7:45 a.m.
I would like to make a memory stick on the host (F12 server) accessible
to the client (Centos 5.3) system.
How can I achieve this?
Thanks, Brendan
9:47 a.m.
I would like to make a memory stick on the host (F12 server)
accessible to the client (Centos 5.3) system.
How can I achieve this?
In theory you can do through virt-manager.
You open the guest window, go to the 'Info' tab, click add hardware, in the
window that appears you choose 'add physical device', then 'usb device'
and the dropbox should list the memory stick, you choose it, click 'finish'
and the guest should now see it.
I said in theory because I have been having trouble adding usb devices
in F12,
but it may work for you.
Andres
9:56 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Andrés García wrote:
> I would like to make a memory stick on the host (F12 server)
accessible to
> the client (Centos 5.3) system.
> How can I achieve this?
In theory you can do through virt-manager.
You open the guest window, go to the 'Info' tab, click add hardware, in the
window that appears you choose 'add physical device', then 'usb device'
and the dropbox should list the memory stick, you choose it, click 'finish'
and the guest should now see it.
I said in theory because I have been having trouble adding usb devices in
F12,
but it may work for you.
The other option is to mount the memory stick and attach it as a block
device to the guest OS. This requires a bit more host interaction when
changing media, but can be a bit more reliable.
Justin
8:08 a.m.
Thanks to Justin and Andres for their responses. I have had another
attempt without success.
I tried going via the "info" button but I don't see the "add
hardware"
is off the screen. However, I found that I could get to the same screen
through Virt Manager - Select Clinet - Edit but (like you Andres) I
couldn't find a way to add the USB pen.
Justin, you suggested "The other option is to mount the memory stick and
attach it as a block device to the guest OS." Is that done in an XML
file or elsewhere? With F11, at some point I edited XML files for the
clients but I can't find that file in F12.
Any further information welcomed.
Brendan
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Justin M. Forbes wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Andrés García wrote:
>> I would like to make a memory stick on the host (F12 server) accessible to
>> the client (Centos 5.3) system.
>> How can I achieve this?
>>
> In theory you can do through virt-manager.
>
> You open the guest window, go to the 'Info' tab, click add hardware, in the
> window that appears you choose 'add physical device', then 'usb
device'
> and the dropbox should list the memory stick, you choose it, click 'finish'
> and the guest should now see it.
>
> I said in theory because I have been having trouble adding usb devices in
> F12,
> but it may work for you.
>
>
The other option is to mount the memory stick and attach it as a block
device to the guest OS. This requires a bit more host interaction when
changing media, but can be a bit more reliable.
Justin
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10:32 a.m.
Justin, you suggested "The other option is to mount the memory
stick
and attach it as a block device to the guest OS." Is that done in an
XML file or elsewhere?
You can do it with virt-manager too, in the 'add hardware' screen you
have to choose 'storage'
A trick that comes handy when you have a small screen is to click on a
window with the 'alt'
key pressed, that way you can move the window clicking on any point of it.
Andres
5:41 a.m.
Thanks Andres, Your tip about using the "Alt" button gave me access to the
"Add hardware" button.
I have selected a device type of "USB disk" but am unsure as
to what to set for "Block Device (partition)" or "File (disk image)" ?
What I want to do is transfer files via a USB memory stick from one
machine to another. Brendan
Andrés García wrote:
> Justin, you suggested "The other option is to mount the memory stick
> and attach it as a block device to the guest OS." Is that done in an
> XML file or elsewhere?
You can do it with virt-manager too, in the 'add hardware' screen you
have to choose 'storage'
A trick that comes handy when you have a small screen is to click on a
window with the 'alt'
key pressed, that way you can move the window clicking on any point of
it.
Andres
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9:52 a.m.
Thanks Andres, Your tip about using the "Alt" button gave
me access to
the "Add hardware" button. I have selected a device type of "USB
disk"
but am unsure as to what to set for "Block Device (partition)" or
"File (disk image)" ? What I want to do is transfer files via a USB
memory stick from one machine to another. Brendan
The block device partition will be something like /dev/sdb1 or
/dev/sdc1, it depends on how
many disks you have at the host.
If you can use the sub key with the host, go to a terminal window and type
$ mount
one of the lines will be have, among other things:
/dev/sdb1 /media/usbkey.
What comes after dev is the name you need, /media/usbkey is where the
usb key files are
at the host, it will be different for you.
Andres
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