[libvirt] USB pass-through with XEN

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Fri Apr 19 22:41:40 UTC 2013


Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I try to doing USB pass-through with XEN hypervisor using libvirt and i
> get the following error:
>
> # virsh attach-device c6test /tmp/usb_device.xml 
> error: Failed to attach device from /tmp/usb_device.xml
> error: unsupported configuration: unsupported device type
>   

Looking at src/xen/xend_internal.c, I see that only attach/detach of PCI
host devices is implemented.  There is currently no support for
virDomainHostdevSubsysType of VIR_DOMAIN_HOSTDEV_SUBSYS_TYPE_USB. 
Patches welcome :).

Regards,
Jim




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