On 10/09/2013 08:57 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Sadly Red Hat is still on 0.9.0 on RHEL 6, which is what I'm using. But > if you were using something not quite so conservative, I bet it's all > there. I might just try building a more recent version of virt-manager > to see if it's working (I also have a need for USB 2.0 support).
I brought in a slightly newer version of virt-manager and python-virtinst (from source) on my RHEL/CentOS 6 server. And USB 2.0 devices work just fine with even this conservative version of qemu-kvm and libvirt. The virt-manager gui lets you switch the USB bus version to 2.0, and then you can add and remove USB devices from the GUI. When you add a device, it gets written to the VM's xml file, so it will be persistent. So as along as you have virt-manager version >= 0.9.1, you have easy usb 2.0 support in KVM. Anyway give kvm and virtualbox both a try. For my purposes, where I want my vms to be long-running, KVM works well. When the host shuts down, it automatically suspends and saves the guests. And on boot, it brings up all my vms automatically (you can mark which ones to start automatically). And the virt-manager GUI, while not quite as slick as VirtualBox or VMWare, works quite well. Just don't expect graphics performance to be anywhere as good as VirtualBox, because KVM isn't so much a desktop app solution. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
