Legacy mode for USB redirection enables the SPICE USB redirection policy used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. This option will not be supported in future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Legacy USB mode is supported on the following clients and guests:
- Client
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and higher
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and higher
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Windows 2008
- Guest
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
If your virtual machine is configured to use legacy USB redirection, you have to manually install several packages before you can use USB devices on your virtual machine.