[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to add an USB Device to KVM guest

[Stefan Everhartz]

I have KVM running on Openindiana and created OpenSuseVM as a guest.
But it is not possible to add any special USB devices to OpenSuseVM other than "-usbdevice tablet".

How to add a USB device like this:

"cfgadm -al" shows an external USB Device attach to the openindiana host.

"usb9/1.3 usb-miscell  connected    configured   ok"

"printenv -v" shows vendor and product id.

                        name='usb-product-id' type=int items=1
                            value=00001210
                        name='usb-vendor-id' type=int items=1
                            value=00002659

If I add "-usbdevice host:00001210:00002659" to my startup script it fails with:

qemu: could not add USB device 'host:00001210:00002659'

Any ideas ?