Configure USB Pass through howto ?

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Respected Sir,

How can i passthrugh a usb device to only a single vm in redhat enterprise virtulization

because we need to run usb token authentication in one of the vm

so what type of vm should it required

PP
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james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
9 August 2013 10:52 PM

I have not been able to find any supporting docs for oVirt or RHEV. Unfortunately I won't be much help. But I wanted to mention using USB over Ethernet? http://www.usb-over-ethernet.com/ in case that might solve your issue.

USB passthrough appears possible in KVM though:

[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/USB_Host_Device_Assigned_to_Guest[(http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/USB_Host_Device_Assigned_to_Guest)

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Li...

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/USB_Host_Device_Assigned_to_Guest

Udayendu Kar's picture Red Hat Guru 1369 points
11 August 2013 11:52 PM

Hi,

Kindly go through the below Red Hat Knowledge Base:

https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/146793

Hope this will help you.

Thanks,

Uday

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