[dundee] USB in Xen Guest

[Sean McRobbie]

Hi Gordon,

I am using pciback (PCI forwarding) fine. I think the usb= option is only for HVM guests, though I could be wrong.

If you need a hand with pciback let me know.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon dunlop" <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009 13:19:39 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [dundee] USB in Xen Guest


I have a problem in trying to get USB e.g. flash media to be picked up in a Centos 5.2 Xen guest. I have amended my guest configuration file in /etc/xen to read: 

usb=1 
# find vid and pid with lsusb 
usb="host:vid:pid" 

I couldn't pick up anything in the Xen guest, other people has had the same problems. Whilst I have mapped my dvdrom drive from the physical drive to the Xen guest so I can do data transfer no problem via removable media, I would still like to use my USB flash drive working in a Xen guest. Other methods such as PCI forwarding is unstable or does't work for others. Does anyone know of a reliable method (that works) for using USB in a Xen guest. 

Gordon 

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