[Spice-devel] Status of USB redirection

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 06/04/2013 02:27 PM, Han Pilmeyer wrote:
> Hoi Hans,
>
> On 03/06/2013 13:42, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> * How do I setup redirection (or I need just the spice connection) ?
>>
>> In virt-manager make sure you're using a spice connection, that the usb-controller
>> model is set to "Usb 2" and then add a number of USB Redirection devices, (up to 4,
>> having more then 1 allows you to redirect more then 1 USB device simultaneously).
> Until now I didn't realize how important this bit of advice really was! I use virt-manager to manage my KVM guests and had added the USB controller as "default". The only alternative was "USB 2". I expected that both were the doing the same. This is not the case however. As soon as I changed the USB controller of the guest from "default" to "USB 2", USB redirection started to work (this is with a Windows 7 guest).
>
> Perhaps the default for the USB controller in virt-manager should be changed from "default" to "USB 2"?

Yes, good idea, can you please file an RFE for this?

Regards,

Hans