USB hotplug on pve 5.1

[Arcanes06]

Hi all,

I'm using PVE 5.1-36 and i get some issues with usb hotpluging.
Is there a way to hotplug an USB key to a VM without shutdown/reboot?

I know that i had to add some config files on the node to enable hotplug RAM and hotplug CPU.
Is this the same for usb hotplug?
I tried different ways to attach a key from host to VM but every time i'm forced to shutdown and start again to see USB key in VM (Windows server 2012 or 2016)

I tried by adding a usb line in VM config files, i tried via qm monitor, via GUI, etc..
And i tried with USB key 1.0 and 2.0
No successful.

Any takers?

Thanks a lot

 

[dcsapak]

usb hotplug via our api/cli tools is currently not possible (there are some technical issues in the way, which we can hopefully fix/workaround soon)

also please see this
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines#Assign_Devices_to_an_already_Running_VM

 

[Arcanes06]

Okay thakns.
So we can't hotplug USB keys at the moment.

Do you have any idea of when this will be patched?

 

[dcsapak]

Do you have any idea of when this will be patched?

no nothing concrete yet

 

[uriel]

Hi,
Since using a KVM PC as a real PC is complicated without hotplug USB, I made a small script to hotplug USB devices:

this script must be lunch an the proxmox host, in open source, and writen in nodejs.

npm install -g proxmox-hotplug

proxmox-hotplug --help

Usage: proxmox-hotplug [options] [command]
 
Hotplug any new Usb device to your proxmox
 
Options:
  -V, --version      output the version number
  --vmid <vmid>    vmid will receved USB Devices, by default the first runing VM having an hostpci0
  --user <user>      host to connect if not root@pam (default: "root@pam")
  --port <port>      port to connect if not 8006 (default: "8006")
  --host <host>      host to connect if not 127.0.0.1 (default: "127.0.0.1")
  -p, --pass [pass]  host password, prefed stdin, nodejs script can not hide password from command line
  -h, --help         display help for command
 
Commands:
  byVendor           connect USB by vendorId/productId faster, do not support multiple identical Device
  byBus              connect USB by position slower, support multiple identical Device
  help [command]     display help for command

## examples:

connect every new USB device to the vm having a passthrough to your GFX:

 proxmox-hotplug --vmid 2000 byBus

connect every new USB device to your VM 2000

 proxmox-hotplug --vmid 2000 byBus

for now the proxmox password has to be typed at run time, or written to the command prompt, that will evolve soon.