On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 02:38:24AM +0000, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> oak2...@gmail.com:
> 
> > Sorry, forgot to mention, I want the USB to show up in a Windows 7 VM, 
> > which is a Standalone VM.
> > 
> Don't know if you can attach a USB drive directly to a Win7 VM like that.
> Think I tried it before and had problems. Have heard of people passing
> through a USB controller and that working, but what I did instead was
> transfer files via a LAN FTP server. Eventually I converted nearly all my
> workflows to open-source instead, so haven't powered up the Win7 VM in
> months.
> 

It's much easier to start the StandaloneVM with the drive attached:
qvm-start StandaloneVM --hddisk sys-usb:/dev/sda

That seems to match your requirement exactly.
(You can, of course, pass in a single partition rather than the whole
drive.)

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