kvm - mount usb device in windows guest

[Randall]

hi all,

for a certain web application i need an IE browser with an usb device 
containing a security key (the USB is formatted as a isofs)


my idea was to simply run a windows copy on a server with KVM, logon 
with RDP and use that to connect to that dreaded website, it all works 
except that i can't see a way to mount a USB, i thought it would be 
simple to:

create an image (+- 1GB)
have it attached as usb within the guest
have the contents of the original usb copied to the image


can't get it done using virt-manager and can find little info to edit 
the xml file as such.


again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough, just 
to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as originally 
intended.


anybody has a clue?


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Re: kvm - mount usb device in windows guest

[green]

Randall wrote at 2012-06-26 07:55 -0500:
 again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough,
 just to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as
 originally intended.

With simple kvm, you can connect a USB device to the guest OS using 
command-line options or after booted using the interface accessed with 
ctrl-alt-2.

But I am not sure about connecting a virtual usb drive; first you need to 
acquire an image of the flash disk, with dd perhaps?  Then, the kvm man page 
describes how to connect an image as a usb mass storage device.


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