Passing USB into a KVM/QEMU VM F10
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Sat Feb 7 23:24:31 UTC 2009
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Has anyone had any success in passing a USB into a KVM virtual machine.
>
> More specifically, I would like to be able to sync by blackberry. I
> have Windows XP and Windows Vista guest OS's. Not a biggie as I can
> dump them and use Virtualbox that I have installed on my laptop. I
> have not figured out how to recognize the USB on VB (2.1) yet either,
> but that is more RTFM.
>
Yes, no worries.
plug in your BlackBerry and run lsusb to see the id numbers.
For instance:
on my system:
...
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0424:2228 Standard Microsystems Corp. 9-in-2 Card
Reader
...
If I wanted to give a VM access to my card reader, I would append the
following to the qemu-kvm command line:
-usbdevice 0424:2228
Thats it.
See the qemu-kvm man pages.
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