KVM/qemu USB pass-through not working for Win7 guest

[solarflow99]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Patrick Oltmann <patrick.oltmann at gmx.net>wrote:

> Hy there
>
> I'm running a KVM/qemu virtual machine with Win7 as a guest and need a USB
> device (Smartcard reader w/ PIN pad) to be passed through into that virtual
> machine. Therefore I use the "-device usb-host, hostbus=X, hostaddr=Y,
> id=hostdev0" command line parameter. However, the device does not show up
> in
> the Win7 guest, but does appear when do the same with a Linux guest system
> (which doesn't make much sense to me since KVM should be a full-virtualized
> system). Any ideas on how to solve this?
>

its things like this, and trying to setup bridged networking, etc. that
still makes virtualbox better to use. Its a shame
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