Bug 13201

Summary:	enable usb redirect in qemu
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Adrien Guichard <guichard.adrien>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	qemu-1.6.2-1.1.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Adrien Guichard 2014-04-12 19:41:45 CEST

Description of problem:
We cannot redirect usb port to VM host, using usbredirserver or virt-manager

We just need to add "--enable-usb-redir" at configure step in qemu spec file (I confess I do not really know how to play with src.rpm, I would be happy to do this myself).


Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch virt-manager either as user or root:
$ virt-manager -c qemu:///session
OR directly (root passwd asked this way)
$ virt-manager
2. install mageia 4 i586 without completing (clicking on "new VM", do not complete this step, this is not mandatory, it works very well as soon as you tweak a little bit)
3. click on the blue "I" (info) icon on the vm window
4. click on "add HW", add usb either via USB Redirection or using USB Host device,
5. restarting the VM tells QEMU does not support usb redirection...

Thanks for your support,
Adrien

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

David Walser 2014-04-12 22:39:10 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => joequant

Comment 1 Joseph Wang 2014-04-13 14:41:53 CEST

It's been added to qemu-2.0.0-0.3.rc2.2.mga5 in cauldron.

Let me know if this should be backported to Mageia 4.

Comment 2 Adrien Guichard 2014-04-13 14:44:11 CEST

Yes, I need this option for Mageia 4. Could it be backported?

Comment 3 Joseph Wang 2014-04-14 00:24:31 CEST

Yes.  I'll see about doing that.

Comment 4 Joseph Wang 2014-04-18 12:13:09 CEST

It's going to be rather difficult to do a backport to Mageia 4.  qemu needs usbredirparser 0.5, but the version on mageia 4 is 0.4.  Upgrading mageia 4 to have this is going to require some tricky updates on the installed packages.

Comment 5 Adrien Guichard 2014-04-18 12:26:39 CEST

Ok, then I close this bug reports. I can deal with it on Mageia 4. I tested this functionality under m5, it seems to work as expected.

Thanks!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED