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Re: [Xen-users] Does USB passthru require VT-d or IOMMU?


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  • From: Henning Holtschneider <henning@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:46:42 +0100
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To answer my own question and for the records:

Am 29.10.2008 um 15:13 schrieb Henning Holtschneider:

I'm running Xen 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 server. I'm trying to pass a USB
device to a Windows 2003 DomU, but the qemu logfile just tells me
"Warning: could not add USB device host:0123:4567". Before I start to
debug the problem more thoroughly, I wonder: do I need a mainboard
chipset that supports Intel's VT-d technology or AMD's IOMMU to pass
individual USB devices from the Dom0 to a DomU?

I solved my problem and I can now forward single USB devices by adding

usb=1
usbdevice = 'host:0123:4567'
usbdevice = 'host:89ab:cdef'

to the DomU configuration file. Initially, I tried

usb=1
usbdevice = [ 'host:0123:4567', 'host:89ab:cdef' ]

which seemed logical to me. But that syntax causes the error message I saw and no USB device will be forwarded. VT-d is not required for USB passthru.

Cheers,
Henning Holtschneider
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