USB Devices not being detected

[alfwro]

Hi,
I'm having issues with detecting my Coral USB Accelerator that is connected to my proxmox ve server 7.1.

root@pve:/# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I tried connecting other devices (ie. memory sticks but they are still not being detected.
How do I get this working?
Thanks

 

[oguz]

hi,

I tried connecting other devices (ie. memory sticks but they are still not being detected.

you can try running dmesg -w and plug the usb in/out to see if the kernel is giving any error messages.

with normal usb sticks you shouldn't be having any problems. you can check in fdisk -l or lsblk -f output to see if the filesystems/partitions show up.

if you can't see any usb devices anywhere then most likely there's another issue, possibly hardware related? (hard to tell without info)

hope this helps!

 

[alfwro]

Hi oguz,

I know that it is not a hardware issue - I previously had ESXI host running on that very same hardware and there were no issues with USB ports.

The only change I have made during the setup was to enable pci passthrough ( I have followed this article: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough )

when I run when I run dmesg -w and then connect and disconnect usb devices I get no output whatsoever and then connect and disconnect usb devices I get no output whatsoever.

with storage usb devices connected and then I run fdisk -l or lsblk -f I can only see my existing drives but not the usb ones.

When I redirect the whole USB hub (as pci passthrough) the USB device is detected within the VM and dmesg -w confirms that fact.

I will restart my proxmox when I can to see if that makes any difference and re-check BIOS settings but as I said before that was working fine.

any other suggestions are most welcome.

 

[oguz]

I previously had ESXI host running on that very same hardware and there were no issues with USB ports.

could you post the output from pveversion -v?

When I redirect the whole USB hub (as pci passthrough) the USB device is detected within the VM and dmesg -w confirms that fact.

that's interesting...

not detecting any USB device on the host is kind of weird, even weirder that it works when passthroughed to a VM...

are you sure it's not already passthroughed to the VM? if it is then you probably can't see it on the host...

 

[alfwro]

pveversion output:

root@pve:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-2-pve)
pve-manager: 7.1-8 (running version: 7.1-8/5b267f33)
pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-6
pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-5
pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4
ceph-fuse: 15.2.15-pve1
corosync: 3.1.5-pve2
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown2: 3.1.0-1+pmx3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.22-pve2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.0
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.2.0-1
libpve-access-control: 7.1-5
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.0-14
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.0-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.0-4
libpve-storage-perl: 7.0-15
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 4.0.11-1
lxcfs: 4.0.11-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-1
proxmox-backup-client: 2.1.2-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.1.2-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.4-4
pve-cluster: 7.1-3
pve-container: 4.1-3
pve-docs: 7.1-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20210831-2
pve-firewall: 4.2-5
pve-firmware: 3.3-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.3-1
pve-i18n: 2.6-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 6.1.0-3
pve-xtermjs: 4.12.0-1
qemu-server: 7.1-4
smartmontools: 7.2-1
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.7.0~rc1+2
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.1-pve3

I only use pci passthrough for a onbord wifi adapter

 

[Pellet]

I had the same issue today. Apparantly USB does not do 'hot swapping' on (my) VM's. Only after a restart of the VM did the USB stick popup. Not a major issue but also not advertised in the docs and not what I expect when I plugin a usb device.

 

[Zetto]

Was this ever solved? I have the same issue. Proxmox doesn't register any USB devices that are connected. I have a Coral TPU connected, a keyboard and a mouse but nothing is showing up when I want to add it to a VM. Not even the USB ports themself under the option "Use USB Port" I'm on VE 8.0.3. I tinkered with the network settings of a Win VM and locked myself out. Thought I can quickly attach a monitor and pass through the Keyboard and mouse to fix it but now I'm stuck.

 

[Shadowed]

Another request for update or solved?

 

[macnug]

Was this ever solved? I have the same issue. Proxmox doesn't register any USB devices that are connected. I have a Coral TPU connected, a keyboard and a mouse but nothing is showing up when I want to add it to a VM. Not even the USB ports themself under the option "Use USB Port" I'm on VE 8.0.3. I tinkered with the network settings of a Win VM and locked myself out. Thought I can quickly attach a monitor and pass through the Keyboard and mouse to fix it but now I'm stuck.

i have the exact same issue, did you solve it?
Thanks!

 

[cammo00]

Same issue 8.1.3 after enabling iummo in grub. No all usb not showing.