Passing USB into a KVM/QEMU VM F10

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/07/2009 06:24 PM, Phil Meyer wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Has anyone had any success in passing a USB into a KVM virtual machine.
>>
>> More specifically, I would like to be able to sync by blackberry. I 
>> have Windows XP and Windows Vista guest OS's.  Not a biggie as I can 
>> dump them and use Virtualbox that I have installed on my laptop. I 
>> have not figured out how to recognize the USB on VB (2.1) yet either, 
>> but that is more RTFM.
>>
>
> Yes, no worries.
>
> plug in your BlackBerry and run lsusb to see the id numbers.
>
> For instance:
>
> on my system:
>
> ...
> Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0424:2228 Standard Microsystems Corp. 9-in-2 
> Card Reader
> ...
>
> If I wanted to give a VM access to my card reader, I would append the 
> following to the qemu-kvm command line:
>
> -usbdevice 0424:2228
>
> Thats it.
>
> See the qemu-kvm man pages.
>
>
Thanks. Why didn't I think of this since I used to do this for my Palm 
device before it was all that automatic. It would be nice if we had a 
jpilot-like utility on Linux for Blackberry, but Barry Backup is good 
for backups.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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