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

[Jonathan Adams]

On 8 January 2014 13:41, Stefan Everhartz <x11max at unitybox.de> wrote:

>
> 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:
>
> I don't use USB passthrough, but have you not tried:

qemu-kvm -usb -device usb-host,hostbus=1210,hostaddr=2659

or something similar?