Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 16:11:29 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 12/06/2009 08:42 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Tom Horsley wrote:
> >> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500
> >> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of
> >>> this as a way to control USB devices?
> >>
> >> My one attempt to use a non-trivial usb device resulted in this:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524723
> >>
> > Thanks, another avenue closed. Was hoping to get an easy to use video
> > software running.
> > 
> 
>   I was/am hoping to be able to use windows vm to program a universal
> remote via usb too ... by the way have you tried virtualbox ? I wonder
> if it has better usb support than qemu?

VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but
you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have USB
support.

poc




More information about the fedora-list mailing list