passthrought an USB device "by ID" to CT
- Thread starter wolframio
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If "by ID" you mean the vendor and product ID of USB devices - yes.
See our admin guide on USB Passthrough and Resource mappings.
See our admin guide on USB Passthrough and Resource mappings.
This also apply for "CT" (containers), i dont know how to setup the container to use the USB device beside using the device "path" wich the USB Port number and device number... (Something like that)
Thanks!
Can anyone confirm if this is actually possible or not? I've seen several posts on this forum trying to do USB passthrough over the years, and it seems no one has been able to do it (passthrough from a USB device to an LXC container using the device's "ID").
It is not possible to do this for containers in the easy way that it is possible for VMs. I believe post #2 assumed that you were talking about VMs instead.
It is possible to pass devices and USB devices from the Proxmox host to a container but it is much more low-level and often involves manually editing configuration files. You typlically pass Linux device nodes (created by the Linux driver) instead of USB device ID or port. Also, hot plug/unplug does not work with containers (only with VMs). There are ways to work-around this using Linux udev-rules and rebooting the container but all of it really depends on the device.
It is possible to pass devices and USB devices from the Proxmox host to a container but it is much more low-level and often involves manually editing configuration files. You typlically pass Linux device nodes (created by the Linux driver) instead of USB device ID or port. Also, hot plug/unplug does not work with containers (only with VMs). There are ways to work-around this using Linux udev-rules and rebooting the container but all of it really depends on the device.