FS#37746 - [qemu] Missing usb redirect support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bret Towe (magnade) - Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 22:04 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 17:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:
lack of depend on likely usbredir is making it so qemu does not support
redirecting usb devices to qemu hosts



Steps to reproduce:
load up virt-manager and try adding a usb redirect target and it will say
that this version of qemu does not support it
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 17:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  1.7.0-2
Comment by Fabien Bourigault (fbourigault) - Sunday, 01 December 2013, 22:10 GMT
This is also one requirement to get gnome-boxes in official repository.
Comment by Bret Towe (magnade) - Thursday, 12 December 2013, 20:32 GMT
2 dependancys added in the attached patch
usbredir for usb redirect over network
and libusb for the bit I was requesting

also in the patch is a fix for bug #38066 on duplicate makedepends
   usbdep.patch (1.6 KiB)
Comment by Kristoffer Jan-Olov Tångfelt (revellion) - Monday, 17 February 2014, 20:17 GMT
This seems to make creating VMs in libvirt impossible currently aswell. so is quite an annoying bug. Trying the patch by magnade at the moment.
Comment by Roman Golovin (dantix) - Monday, 17 February 2014, 20:18 GMT
I'm bumping this issue, since I can't create any virual machine after last update neither via virt-manger nor virt-install, because it seams that USB Redirect is created by default, but qemu lacks support of it.

I'm providing example of virtual machine creation command that fails with this error.
I have "usbredir" installed in my system.

>>>>>

pacman -Qs usbredir
local/usbredir 0.6-4
USB traffic redirection protocol

>>>>

virt-install -n isis_0 --memory=2048 --vcpus=2 --cpu host --cdrom=/media/data/Downloads/Distribs/elementaryos-unstable-3.8-amd64.20130815.iso --os-variant=ubuntusaucy --disk /media/data/Images/isis_0.qcow2 -w default --graphics spice --hvm --video qxl

Starting install...
ERROR unsupported configuration: USB redirection is not supported by this version of QEMU

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