On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am interested in running a WinXP instance on top of Linux in a > qemu-kvm virtual machine in a way that is maximally transparent to the > user of the machine. Mostly, it looks like it works, but I am a bit > concerned that hotplugged devices (USB in particular) might make "the > man behind the curtain" more visible than desired. I am interested in > hearing about anyone's experience doing or trying to do this. What > did you use, how successfully, etc.
Hi Russell, Not sure if you're using a libvirt-managed KVM instance. These links seem to indicate that KVM can autoconnect USB passthrough, but libvirt doesn't yet. The second blog post shows a workaround that may asymptotically approach your desired maximal transparency. http://david.wragg.org/blog/2009/03/using-usb-pass-through-under-libvirt.html http://david.wragg.org/blog/2009/03/usb-pass-through-with-libvirt-and-kvm.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508645 -- Dan Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
