Re: [Xen-users] How do you give USB to a Windows domU?

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:53 +0100, Jeroen Groenewegen van der Weyden
wrote:
> James,
> 
> I had a similar problem on openSUSE 11.1 the solution was to adjust
> the below.
> 
> in /etc/fstab
> #usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto
> 0 0
> /sys/bus/usb/drivers /proc/bus/usb        usbfs
> devgid=0,devmode=664  0 0
> 
> After this a "mount -a" and create en start you domain newly and see
> if there is any improvement.
> 

What does the "mount -a" do? Unfortunately this did not change anything.
I still cannot see the usb device in the Vista domU. I restarted the
server, deleted and recreated the domU. 

Shouldn't the usb device be listed in the xenstore? It's not currently.
See below. 

Thanks,
James

# xm list -l Vista
(domain
    (domid 2)
    (bootloader )
    (on_crash destroy)
    (uuid e966ca8a-de85-accf-d9c3-1a15c3de0a7e)
    (bootloader_args )
    (vcpus 2)
    (name Vista)
    (cpus (() ()))
    (on_reboot restart)
    (on_poweroff destroy)
    (maxmem 1024)
    (memory 1024)
    (shadow_memory 10)
    (features )
    (on_xend_start ignore)
    (on_xend_stop ignore)
    (start_time 1257861152.96)
    (cpu_time 82.084100073)
    (online_vcpus 2)
    (image
        (hvm
            (kernel )
            (videoram 4)
            (hpet 0)
            (stdvga 0)
            (loader /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader)
            (monitor 0)
            (rtc_timeoffset 0)
            (pci ())
            (hap 1)
            (localtime 1)
            (timer_mode 1)
            (pci_msitranslate 1)
            (apic 1)
            (usbdevice tablet)
            (vpt_align 1)
            (extid 0)
            (serial pty)
            (vncunused 1)
            (boot c)
            (xen_platform_pci 1)
            (pae 1)
            (viridian 0)
            (acpi 1)
            (vnc 1)
            (nographic 0)
            (usb 1)
            (guest_os_type default)
            (device_model /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm)
            (keymap en-us)
            (pci_power_mgmt 0)
            (xauthority /root/.Xauthority)
            (isa 0)
            (notes (SUSPEND_CANCEL 1))
        )
    )
    (status 2)
    (state -b----)
    (store_mfn 1044476)
    (device
        (vif
            (bridge br0)
            (uuid 42ec763c-c202-2b41-59c9-bf56ab53a719)
            (script /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge)
            (mac 00:16:3e:5b:bc:c3)
            (model rtl8139)
            (backend 0)
        )
    )
    (device
        (console
            (protocol vt100)
            (location 4)
            (uuid 4277ecac-3423-2e91-4833-fd50d5582d18)
        )
    )
    (device
        (vbd
            (uuid 1ebfa3f5-216c-65cf-c239-d6f8cf9b9846)
            (bootable 1)
            (dev hda:disk)
            (uname file:/xendata2/images/Vista/disk0)
            (mode w)
            (backend 0)
            (bootable 1)
            (VDI )
        )
    )
    (device
        (vfb
            (vncunused 1)
            (vnc 1)
            (uuid afc9fb25-26d9-b210-85e4-7d8dd1f1f5e9)
            (location 127.0.0.1:5900)
        )
    )
)



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