Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Dec 10 17:42:54 UTC 2009


Greg Woods wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:55 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote:
>>> I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than
>>> using NAT
>> In VirtualBox you set this up as follows:
>>
>> * open VirtualBox
>> * open the settings window for your VM
>> * go to "network", open the appropriate "adapter" tab (typically the first 
>> one)
>> * set the "attached to" setting to "bridged adapter"
>> * click "OK"
> 
> This worked, and I am finally able to sync my Palm via a virtual
> machine. Now I need to figure out how to do this for KVM. This appears
> to be more difficult than either VirtualBox or Xen, as the virt-manager
> doesn't create the necessary bridged devices automatically for this to
> work, so I am going to have to figure out how to do it manually. I have
> Googled for this but the instructions I found didn't work. As soon as I
> add the "eth0" to one of my bridge devices, regular networking for the
> host OS stops working. Obviously I am just missing something. I am going
> to have to find a tuturial somewhere on how bridging actually works in
> order to figure this out.
> 
This script may contain useful information, I use it on multiple machines.
Run with ". kvm-start.sh" as root.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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