[libvirt-users] Support for on-demand USB pass through

[Jiri Denemark]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 14:17:38 +0100, Felicitus wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 02:12 PM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> 
> > However, such device would not be automatically connected when it
> > becomes available (which seems to be what you are after according
> > to the guide you posted). You'd need to shut the VM down and start
> > it up again.
> 
> That sounds almost as what I need - however, a VM shutdown and startup
> again is not very handy.
> 
> Is there any chance to attach the device at runtime to the VM?

Yeah, with USB redirection, which I mentioned in the part of my email you did
not quote :-) However, I'm not sure if it's possible to make it happen
automatically or if you need to manually attach each device.

Jirka