kvm, and USB

[Ed Smits]

If you are willing to spend the cash VMWare Workstation 6 does support
USB 2 as well as have a bunch of other things not available in the
free versions, works well with Feisty too


Ed

On 7/3/07, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
> Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> > Thanks for the vmware-player/vmware server suggestion. Unfortunately I
> > tried vmware-player first, but the guest OS couldn't actually
> > communicate with my USB devices. The control panel would see them to
> > connect and disconnect them and the guest OS could see that a device was
> > connected or disconnected, but it didn't work from the guest OS at all.
> > I tried this with both a printer and a flash disk with no luck. That's
> > why I tried qemu with kvm. Googling for vmware USB showed me all kinds
> > of examples of it working except in open-SUSE,  and even a page that
> > gave me the same information about attaching the device before powering
> > on the vm and the person was using Ubuntu Feisty, but this didn't result
> > in any actual communication between the device and the guest OS. The
> > guest only saw the device connect and disconnect, but couldn't talk to
> > it. Maybe I should give vmware-server a try. Could this help?
> >
> >
>
> I use VMWare Server quite a bit with various USB devices and it works ok
> but not spectacularly well.  The most annoying thing is it only supports
> USB 1.1, that makes using my backup drives rather slow and annoying.
>
> But - if you're only trying to make a keyboard/mouse or other device
> work which doesn't really need the speeds of USB 2.0 it seems to work
> well enough.
>
> -d