[GLLUG] Does any virtualisation system provide good support for USB device forwarding?
Richard W.M. Jones
rich at annexia.org
Tue Apr 8 09:59:57 UTC 2014
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:38:31AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> Obvious alternatives are KVM and VirtualBox, both of which sort of
> seem to support USB device forwarding. However, the documentation
> page for KVM -
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/index.php?title=UsbPassthrough - is
> simply missing, although it's referred to from various other parts
> of the documentation. My experience of VirtualBox is limited to
> using it for desktop virtualisation. I haven't tried it headless.
The documentation for KVM is here:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/USB_Host_Device_Assigned_to_Guest
I briefly and a long time ago tried to get this to work so I could
connect an iPhone to a Windows VM (successfully, in the end). The
main difficulty IIRC was preventing the host OS from interfering /
mounting the USB device, which stops it from being passed through to
the guest.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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