Hi Matt- I actually believe this bug to be fixed in Lucid's qemu-kvm 0.12.3.
Similar to your original report, I fired up a VM with usb attached to my Palm Pre phone, which can act as a USB dongle. I was able to successfully connect to the internet in the VM with: $ sudo kvm -m 512 -hda testdrive-disk-nMLT3b.img -usb -usbdevice host:0830:0101 usb_create: no bus specified, using "usb.0" for "usb-host" husb: open device 2.7 husb: config #5 need -1 husb: 4 interfaces claimed for configuration 5 husb: grabbed usb device 2.7 husb: config #5 need 5 husb: 4 interfaces claimed for configuration 5 husb: config #5 need 5 husb: 4 interfaces claimed for configuration 5 husb: config #5 need 5 husb: 4 interfaces claimed for configuration 5 husb: config #5 need 5 husb: 4 interfaces claimed for configuration 5 And in the guest, it was able to connect through the dongle to the internet. There was no noticeable degradation in performance in either the host or guest. Screenshot attached. I think this is fix-released! ** Attachment added: "usb.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39938116/usb.png ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Using -usbdevice host: slows the guest OS down to a crawl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs