Re: [libvirt-users] Host should not touch passed-through USB device, how?

> > So I am looking for a way to make sure the host passes through > > the USB device (in its entirety) without trying to touch it and > > claim it as its own. Preferably without disabling the USB > > storage subsystem completely on the host. > > > > Any ideas? Is there a best practice for such things in the > > Libvirt world? Or any other world? > > For PCI devices, libvirt automatically performs a device reset and > some other voodoo to make sure the host doesn't try to use the > device. Maybe there is something similar that libvirt can do for > USB devices as well? I'm not very knowledgable about that stuff so > I can't say for certain. Yes there is the same. We need to finish implementing identical infrastructure to that used for PCI devices. We need to do resets and bind/unbind host device drivers, and implement the so called 'managed' mode.