USB Guest Support

[nhudson]

Im am trying to get the guest OS (Windows) to see usb drives plugged into the server. I have a few apps that run on Windows that need a USB drive to authenticate its licenses on. Any idea on how to do this. Looks like Proxmox is using KVM-72, which seems not to support USB pass through. Is there any way to get the version of KVM updated to allow this?

 

[tom]

Im am trying to get the guest OS (Windows) to see usb drives plugged into the server. I have a few apps that run on Windows that need a USB drive to authenticate its licenses on. Any idea on how to do this. Looks like Proxmox is using KVM-72, which seems not to support USB pass through. Is there any way to get the version of KVM updated to allow this?

kvm-72? where did you get this? looks like you need an update.

the current KVM on 1.4 stable: kvm-kmod-2.6.30.1
(in 'pvetest': kvm-kmod-2.6.31.6)

we do not test usb devices extensively in our test lab but it should work (use the search function of the forum).

 

[ion-ral]

I can confirm that the USB device works well, the transfer is excellent but I have to do more testing before we can say that.
I can definitely say that with the proxmox USB 1.4 Use License is stable and fairly easy to command line

 

[ITN]

It works fine with USB- and parallel port-Dongles.

for example in my vmid.conf

hostusb: 0529:0001
parallel: /dev/parport0

 

[ion-ral]

If the VM is Linux, USB pass trough feature works, if Windows (2008 and seven) seems not work ... ideas?