Revision as of 17:02, 16 September 2014

Description

Attach a physical USB device to your guest.

Functioning Fedora host and a VM of any OS. More VM OS and USB devices the merrier!

Start the VM
Add Hardware->USB Host Device
Choose the device you want to assign from the list, like: 009:002 SanDisk Extreme
Click Finish
Verify that the guest shows up in 'lsusb' output in the guest.
Verify the device's functionality in the guest (this will be device specific)
Select the device in virt-manager, and click 'Remove'.
Verify the device again appears in the host, and is functional on the host.

No obvious errors occur.

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 |actions=
-=== Verify the VM is configured for USB2 ===
-VMs created with virt-manager and virt-install on Fedora 20 or later are configured with USB2 by default, but pre-existing VMs may not have it.
-# Start with a shutoff VM. Open the VM defails page.
-# Select 'Controller USB' and verify model is USB2. If not, change it to USB2 and click apply.
 === Attach the host USB device ===