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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, flypen@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Does anyone successfully use USB drive in Windows7 guest?
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:35:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E05B9F2.5080101@wpkg.org> (raw)

> Does anyone successfully use USB drive in Windows7 guest? If I pass a
> USB drive to Windows7 guest, Device Manager may find this device but
> the USB mass storage driver can't be installed successfully. I have
> tried many times. Is the emulated USB controller is so old and
> Windows7 doesn't support it? I can't use PCI passthrough feature to
> pass the whole USB controller to VM, because the hypervisor also needs
> to use some USB ports.
>
> If I use Windows XP or Linux, the USB drive can work well.

I think it's because qemu/kvm does not support USB 2.0.

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/0.15


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-25 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-25 10:35 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
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2011-06-25  1:32 Does anyone successfully use USB drive in Windows7 guest? Flypen CloudMe
2011-06-25 12:24 ` André Weidemann

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