[fedora-virt] windows xp guest and iphone

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Feb 10 14:56:17 UTC 2010


On 02/09/2010 07:16 PM, Jamie Wellnitz wrote:
> Heh.
> 
> I spent a week after I got my iTouch (sorry, "iPod Touch") trying to
> get it to sync with ITunes on WinXP in a virtual machine hosted on
> Fedora 12.
> 
> You have to use the USB passthrough feature - BUT The iPhone/iPod
> Touch devices apparently have a "more complicated" USB protocol than
> qemu/kvm can currently handle.  Oh, and I never saw a failure - iTunes
> just never sees the device - quite annoying.
> 

AIUI the iphone requires USB 2.0 to work, while qemu only emulates USB 1.1.

- Cole


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