[fedora-virt] Making memory stick accessible from client

[Brendan Whelan]

Thanks to Justin and Andres for their responses. I have had another 
attempt without success.
I tried going via the "info" button but I don't see the "add hardware" 
is off the screen. However, I found that I could get to the same screen 
through Virt Manager - Select Clinet - Edit but (like you Andres) I 
couldn't find a way to add the USB pen.
Justin, you suggested "The other option is to mount the memory stick and 
attach it as a block device to the guest OS." Is that done in an XML 
file or elsewhere? With F11, at some point I edited XML files for the 
clients but I can't find that file in F12.
Any further information welcomed.
Brendan
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Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Andrés García wrote:
>   
>>> I would like to make a memory stick on the host (F12 server) accessible to 
>>> the client (Centos 5.3) system.
>>> How can I achieve this?
>>>       
>> In theory you can do through virt-manager.
>>
>> You open the guest window, go to the 'Info' tab, click add hardware, in the
>> window that appears you choose 'add physical device', then 'usb device'
>> and the dropbox should list the memory stick, you choose it, click 'finish'
>> and the guest should now see it.
>>
>> I said in theory because I have been having trouble adding usb devices in 
>> F12,
>> but it may work for you.
>>
>>     
> The other option is to mount the memory stick and attach it as a block
> device to the guest OS.  This requires a bit more host interaction when
> changing media, but can be a bit more reliable.
>
> Justin
>
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