Am 27.04.2011 10:39, schrieb Jussi Hirvi: > KVM virtualization is full of wonders. :-/ > > I would need to attach an USB disk to a vm, but how? > > The command "qemu" would provide a way: > > [root at a134-224 yum.repos.d]# man qemu-kvm > >> QEMU(1) >> NAME >> qemu-doc - QEMU Emulator User Documentation >> >> SYNOPSIS >> usage: qemu [options] [disk_image] > (...) >> -usbdevice devname >> Add the USB device devname. > > But when I try it: > > [root at a134-224 yum.repos.d]# qemu start -usbdevice host:059f:1018 mail > -bash: qemu: command not found > > That command syntax is probably ot right yet, but the main question is, > where is qemu? > > I was tempted to yum-install qemu from rpmforge, but I would rather not. > Besides the rpmforge version has a conflict with another manual page. > Yeah, you hit a bug in the man page. Because qemu-kvm (thats the right name) is not meant to run directly it resides here: # rpm -ql kvm|grep qemu /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm /usr/share/man/man1/qemu-kvm.1.gz So # /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm should get you going. Rainer