Re: usbdevice option and specifying a specific device

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 31/07/13 11:12, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 09:25 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On 30/07/13 09:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 20:17 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to use usbdevice option in the config file (instead of
>>>> passing USB PCI devices), and the documentation says to specify the
>>>> device in the form host:xxxx:yyyy where xxxx:yyyy is the USB
>>>> vendor:device ID.
>>>>
>>>> Except there is a problem with this - I have two identical keyboards and
>>>> mice, one set of which I want to pass to the host, and the other set
>>>> which I want to pass to the guest. Since the xxxx:yyyy will be the same
>>>> for both devices of each type, how can I deterministically specify which
>>>> I want to keep on the host and which I want to pass to the guest?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to use something like BusID:DeviceID instead in order to
>>>> provide a more deterministic outcome?
>>> I think George (CCd) had some plans to improve this initial
>>> implementation in the 4.4 time frame.
>>>
>>> Since it looks like the devices which you pass are given direct to
>>> qemu's -usbdevice option it seems like host:bus.addr should work too.
>>> "Supporting" this option is perhaps just a docs patch away?
>> Yes, I think "host:bus.addr" should work as well.  Let us know if it
>> doesn't.
> If it does then we should add it to our docs as something which we
> support passing on to qemu.

Gordan, did you try this?

  -George