Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1:0.14.1+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Instead of the classic command line switches like -serial and -usbdevice, libvirt invokes kvm with the more generic syntax, e.g.
-device serial,… -device usb_host,… Unfortunately, kvm does not seem to support those, and the device is not made available to the guest. If I manually influence the command line and use the classic command line switches, then it works, however. The reason why libvirt uses those generic -device lines is due to hotplug support. Apparently -device … is hotpluggable, while -usbdevice is not. It would be good if kvm would support those generic device specifications, not only because it advertises them in its manpage, but mostly because libvirt makes use of them already. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kvm depends on: ii qemu-kvm 0.14.1+dfsg-4 kvm recommends no packages. kvm suggests no packages. Versions of packages qemu-kvm depends on: ii adduser 3.113 ii ipxe 1.0.0+git-2.149b50-1 ii libaio1 0.3.109-2 ii libasound2 1.0.24.1-4 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-3 ii libbluetooth3 4.96-3 ii libbrlapi0.5 4.2-8+b1 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.7-3 ii libgnutls26 2.12.11-1 ii libjpeg8 8c-2 ii libncurses5 5.9-2 ii libpng12-0 1.2.46-3 ii libpulse0 1.0-4 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.25.dfsg1-2 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.4 ii libuuid1 2.19.1-5 ii libvdeplug2 2.2.3-3+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-2 ii python 2.6.7-3 ii qemu-keymaps 0.15.0+dfsg-1 ii qemu-utils 0.15.0+dfsg-1 ii seabios 0.6.1.2-3 ii vgabios 0.6c-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages qemu-kvm recommends: ii bridge-utils 1.5-2 ii iproute 20110629-1 Versions of packages qemu-kvm suggests: ii debootstrap <none> ii samba <none> ii vde2 2.2.3-3+b1 -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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