On 08/09/2011 04:06 PM, Timothy Kesten wrote:

Hi Folks,

Using CentOS 6 x86_64.

I've installed a WIN-XP guest successful (conversion from a VMWare-Image) Everything works fine - expect USB-Devices. I've installed connected USB-Stick with virt-manager but in the WIN-XP guest no device accessible.

What goes wrong? More information needed?

Recently I tried the same with a Win7 guest on Fedora 15 and it did not work either. Then I tried VirtualBox with the proprietary parts added and that worked fine. Have not looked into why it does not work with KVM. Will revisit that when I have more time.

You need to make sure that your USB stick is not grabbed by the host system. Iirc there is more information in the Virtualization Guide:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualiza...

Regards, Patrick