From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: Does anyone successfully use USB drive in Windows7 guest? Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:35:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4E05B9F2.5080101@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , flypen@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from mail.virtall.com ([178.63.195.102]:44582 "EHLO mail.virtall.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041Ab1FYKfd (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:35:33 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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