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Passing a USB device to Qemu KVM

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I am trying to get my Windows VM to access my USB pen drive, but I am having problems passing this USB over to the VM. On my Linux host machine, I ran lsusb where my device was identified as Bus 001 Device 018 : ID 8564:1000 Transcend Information, Inc. Jetflash Looking at a few guides, I tried to pass this USB to kvm using qemu-system-x86_64 -m 3G --enable-kvm "Windows 10.qcow2" -usb -device usb-host,hostbus=1,hostaddr=18 No matter what I try, I get the error saying "usb-host" is not a valid device. I tried to change that to usb-storage, since that is the class of device I see for it when doing lsusb -t, but I don't know what to pass for Device ID..If I leave it blank, it says property ".drive" is missing, as expected. I tried doing a ls /sys/bus/usb/devices which printed out some information like 1-0:10 1-1 1-1.1 ........usb1 usb2 But no matter which id I try and pass along in the command qemu-system-x86_64 -m 3G --enable-kvm "Windows 10.qcow2" -usb -device usb-storage,drive=, it says no such property with given value exists. So, 1. Should I be concerned that usb-host is not a valid device? 2. What do I need to do to get usb-storage with device id to work? 3. Does qemu-kvm support usb 2, 3 and streaming camera? I'm using QEMU emulator version 4.1.0
Asked by user1173240 (173 rep)
Jan 10, 2020, 10:39 AM
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