On 10/22/2015 4:15 PM, Nux! wrote: > Try giving the VM a Spice display, instead of VNC, see if that helps. no idea how to do this, I'm a total newb with KVM. all I actually want to do is attach a USB device to my existing and running KVM, but the instructions for doing this in virtsh are confusing (anything that requires editing XML files tends to give me a headache). specifically, I want the VM 'kfat' to 'own' Bus 005 Device 004: ID 08bb:2704 Texas Instruments Audio Codec ....... OK, I figured it out, I had to create a .xml file like... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'> <source> <vendor id='0x08bb'/> <product id='0x2704'/> </source> </hostdev> and pass that to virsh attach-device vmname my.xml -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz