On 01/06/2015 12:08 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > I'm using Spice and want to share a USB device on workstation with a VM > running on another physical host. The filters are all set up for the VM in > its domain XML. The Spice "Select USB devices for redirection" dialog shows > the device I want to redirect. However, all the USB devices are greyed out > and Alert text says, "Some USB devices are blocked by host policy". My > understanding, from the doc > <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-limit-redirection.html>, > is that the following XML needs to be configured on the "host physical > machine's domain XML" which I am interpreting as the workstation, although it > could be the hypervisor host, to unblock the USB device: > > <redirfilter> > <usbdev class='0x08' vendor='0x0951' product='0x1625' version='2.0' > allow='yes'/> > <usbdev allow='no'/> > </redirfilter> > > Either way, I cannot figure out what the name or location of the file where > this XML would go, let alone find a complete schema or example of what the > file would look like. Has anyone else done this? Please... <gasp> Help! >
I've never seen that message before. Can you provide the guest XML you are using? And maybe upload a screenshot somewhere of what you are seeing in virt-viewer. What type of device are you trying to passthrough? CCing hans who is the usbredir expert - Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list virt@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
