virtualization and USB
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 25 21:29:31 UTC 2010
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 01:33:01PM -0500, jim wrote:
> I'm thinking of setting up a Virtual Machine but wondering if anyone has
> any suggestions/opinions on how I should go. I installed the open source
> version of VirtualBox then realized it didn't support USB , only the
> enterprise version. I don't mind paying the $50.00 if the USB
> functionality works. I'd be using Windows 7 as a guest. Also I would
> want to use Bluetooth on the guest. The USB devices I would be using are
> printers and some FTDI based devices ie. USB to Serial etc. Just
> wondering if people think KVM would be better or VMWare or stick with
> VirtualBox. Any thoughts?
I believe kvm supports USB device passthrough. I haven't tried.
Certainly the qemu options (almost all of which kvm uses too) say:
-usbdevice devname
Add the USB device devname.
"host:bus.addr"
Pass through the host device identified by bus.addr (Linux only).
"host:vendor_id:product_id"
Pass through the host device identified by vendor_id:product_id (Linux only).
"serial:[vendorid=vendor_id][,productid=product_id]:dev"
Serial converter to host character device dev, see "-serial" for the available devices.
I certainly am through with vmware. I won't ever use it again.
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Len Sorensen
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