Re: [Libvir] how to setup usb/serial ports with libvirt & kvm (Fedora 7)
John Davey wrote:
I am experimenting with the following Redhat 9 kvm on Fedora 7.
How do I add a USB device with Libvirt? Specifically I'd like to add a
usb-serial converter for logging data. "Man qemu-kvm" shows -usbdevice
devname to add a USB device but I cannot find out how to do this with
libvirt.
Libvirt will only use "-usbdevice table" or "-usbdevice mouse"
depending on the input device you've selected. A hack I've found
useful for modifying the kvm command-line arguments is to change the
<emulator> tag to point to a shell script that invokes kvm as you'd
like. For example, /etc/libvirt/kvm-wrapper containing:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/qemu-kvm "$@" -usbdevice host:1234:5678
might do the trick.
-jim