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

[Stefan Everhartz]

This does not work. Have tried it before.
Seems that Solaris KVM kernel doesn't support passthrought USB devices to KVM guests.
 
On 08.01.2014, at 15:57, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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