Re: accessing USB disk-on-key from windows (under KVM)

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:32:06PM +0300, Ian Brown wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks, Anthony.
> 
> I tried both #2 and #3.
> 
> It does not say any error, but still I cannot access the USB disk on key.
> Maybe I miss something ?
> Here are few more details.
> 
> When I ran:
> /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -usbdevice disk:/dev/sdb
> /work/kvm/win2003/vdisk.img -m 384
> OR
> /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64  -hdb /dev/sdb
> /work/kvm/win2003/vdisk.img -m 384
> 
> windows started ok (it did not emit errors, as I said).
> 
> But I expected that clicking on "my computer" (or right clicking and
> opening file explorer) will show me the USB storage disk,
> and it did not. (I can see there only the hard disk and the CD).

IIRC you need to also give the '-usb'  arg to actually turn on USB bus
emulation, then the -usbdevice args will be used.

Regards,
Dan,
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