Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Greg Woods wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:42 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On my system, I turn off NetworkManager and build (by hand) a ifcfg-br0 script to define the bridge, and make ifcfg-eth0 part of the bridge, moving all IPADDR and such parameters to the bridge. This was going to be my

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:55 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than using NAT In VirtualBox you set this up as follows: * open VirtualBox * open the settings window for

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:55 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than using NAT In VirtualBox you set this up as follows: * open VirtualBox * open the settings

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 12:42 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than using NAT Now I need to figure out how to do this for KVM. This script may contain useful information

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:16:24 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: What confuses me is that on my Centos 5/Xen boxes, eth0 has the regular IP address, there is another pseudo-device called peth0 which is what is seen in virt-manager, and the bridge configuration appears to be much more complicated. All

RE: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Fedora RedHat
From: Tom Horsley Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:42 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12 On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:16:24 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: What confuses me is that on my Centos 5/Xen boxes, eth0 has

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:42 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On my system, I turn off NetworkManager and build (by hand) a ifcfg-br0 script to define the bridge, and make ifcfg-eth0 part of the bridge, moving all IPADDR and such parameters to the bridge. This was going to be my next step. I actually

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? My one attempt to use a non-trivial usb device resulted in this:

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/06/2009 08:42 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? My one attempt to use a non-trivial usb device resulted in

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: I was/am hoping to be able to use windows vm to program a universal remote via usb too ... by the way have you tried virtualbox ? I wonder if it has better usb support than qemu? Still not very good though. I have never been able to sync

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/06/2009 08:42 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices?

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have USB support. How much does it cost to get a home user license for the non-free version?

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/06/2009 11:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: I plan to try Xen at some point but I doubt if it will be any better. I suspect Xen is dying/dead and not well supported now ... at least kms is in upstream kernel, and VB has sun (or whoever!)

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/06/2009 11:57 AM, Mail Lists wrote: I suspect Xen is dying/dead and not well supported now ... at least kms is in upstream kernel, and VB has sun (or whoever!) keeping the kernel modules updated. s/kms/kvm/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:28:10 Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have USB support. How much does it cost

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/06/2009 09:44 AM, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/06/2009 08:42 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? My one attempt to

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than using NAT, but the GUIs don't generally support this and I haven't yet learned how to create a VM or a virtual network from the command line. If I did that I could

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/06/2009 12:48 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I'm using VirtualBox (not the OSE version) to run an XP VM that I use with for iTunes/iPhone and a Logitech Harmony remote control. It seems to handle USB well. Funnily enough there is a linux package for that controller too ... (concordance /

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Mikkel
On 12/06/2009 10:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: The problem is that the device appears to be recognized just fine, but I can never establish a sync connection. You can try Sun's VirtualBox. For something like the Palm, that only appears when you hit the sync button/icon, so you need to create a

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 09:28 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: VirtualBox works for me (to the extent of synching my old Palm Tx) but you have to use the non-free version as the free one doesn't have USB support. How much does it cost

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mail Lists wrote: On 12/06/2009 11:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: I plan to try Xen at some point but I doubt if it will be any better. I suspect Xen is dying/dead and not well supported now ... at least kms is in upstream kernel, and VB

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2009 16:11:11 Greg Woods wrote: I'm guessing I could set up a VM that has a real IP address rather than using NAT, but the GUIs don't generally support this and I haven't yet learned how to create a VM or a virtual network from the command line. If I

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 11:57 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/06/2009 11:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: I plan to try Xen at some point but I doubt if it will be any better. I suspect Xen is dying/dead and not well supported now ... That depends on what distro you are running. Xen is well

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:39 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: The VirtualBox-OSE (the open-source edition) is in rpmfusion and doesn't have USB support. The VirtualBox (the Sun closed-source edition) is in Sun's yum repository and does support USB. OK, then I am using the non-free version

Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? Some devices are simply not usefully supported at the application level in Linux, although the drivers are fine. Therefore the need to run an app, preferably in a VM rather than under wine

Re: Using USB devices in VMs under KVM fc11 or fc12

2009-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:54:26 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Has anyone tried this, and if so can you comment on the viability of this as a way to control USB devices? My one attempt to use a non-trivial usb device resulted in this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524723 --