Re: How to get guest OS to see USB drive on QEMU

Thanks, Celejar. In AQEMU, I can go to Media, Computer Ports, and click on Add USB Port button in Add Ports group of icons. However, once I've done that, if I start the guest OS (Windows) with the flash drive plugged in, it won't boot. If I unplug it and boot the guest, then plug the USB flash drive, it gets picked up by the host (Debian), but not the guest. I am still reading a variety of results from web searches with the keywords you mentioned, "usb passthrough" and others, but so far I am not able to make it work.

Luben

On Saturday, November 30, 2019, 10:08:20 PM EST, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:52:13 +0000 (UTC)

D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> I am running the latest Debian Stable (10.2) with AQEMU frontend for
> QEMU 0.9.2 (2016.05.31). The guest OS is Windows 10. How to I get that
> gues OS, Windows, to "see" a flash drive plugged into a USB port? My
> search for a solution on the web has been unsuccessful so far.
> Thanks you in advance for your help.Luben

I don't know anything about AQEMU, but I just did exactly this - passed
a USB device plugged into a machine running Debian Stable to a VM
running a Windows guest - using virt-manager. With virt-manager, it's a
simple matter of going to the VM's details, clicking the "Add Hardware"
button, clicking "USB Host Device" from the list, and then selecting
the desired USB Host Device from the next list.

The term generally used for this is "USB passthrough".

Celejar