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Libvirt USB passthrought via port (self.linux)

submitted 2 months ago by user_naa to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I need to create a VM and passthrought some host USB port to it. Sadly libvirt doesn't support QEMU built-in feature to use -hostport argument (which was added 10 years ago...). I tried to add custom arguments to domain (qemu:commandline) but this didn't work. When I just run qemu-system-x86_64 -device host-usb,hostbus=X,hostport=Y -usb everything works well. It seems like libvirt restricts some QEMU actions. How can I fix this? OS: Debian 12

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I would personally look into buying a pcie USB card. You can easily passthough PCIe devices with minimal effort and it will work better

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Uh probably not that helpful but I am somewhat sure that this was super easy to do from virt-manager (on Arch qemu & kvm, virtualizing Tiny11 )

[–] user_naa 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, this is not possible. Virt-manager is just a GUI over libvirt. For now libvirt doesn't support USB passthrought by port id, only by device id (which changes on each plug) or vendor id.

[–] mumblerfish 2 points 2 months ago

Not the person you were replying to, and don't understand exactly what you mean with port and device id. But if it changes every time, -ish, you plug it in, do you mean like /dev/sdX device names? If so, then maybe look at /dev/disk/by-TYPE/ and use those instead? You have stuff there which is the same each time you plug in.

[–] somethingsomethingidk 3 points 2 months ago

I found this. I didn't look at the code at all but the Readme mentions another project that might help.

https://github.com/ipatix/libvirt-usb-hotplug

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

this may help, if you're using apparmour.

https://serverfault.com/questions/667426/pass-an-usb-hub-from-a-kvm-host-to-a-guest-with-libvirt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I could never get that to work for some of my devices,so I had to use virtualbox,which works very well.