WinXP ignores a USB passthrough! Hello, I need a persistent passthrough of a USB-device: Bus 001 Device 020: ID 04e6:5311 SCM Microsystems, Inc. I added <hostdev mode='subsy.... </hostdev> like this to xml file: [...] <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x04e6'/> <product id='0x5311'/> </source> </hostdev> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> [...] /var/log/libvirt/qemu/win-xp-prof.log: ===================================== 2013-11-02 12:26:42.007+0000: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-1.1 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name win-xp-prof -uuid 5217ba2d-0d7d-1579-74a6-a1ad8439dda3 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win-xp-prof.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/win-xp-prof.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=20,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:7f:d8:80,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 The enty seems to be ignored completely. Where is my configuration fault? Maybe extra module need to be loaded? - In installed WinXP with virt-manager. Host: debian wheezy, kernel 3.10, libvirt-bin 0.9.12-11 qemu-kvm 1.1.2 tia Ekkard