am trying to get my Windows VM to access my USB pen drive, but I am having problems passing this USB over to the VM.

On my Linux host machine, I ran lsusb where my device was identified as
I tried to pass it along to VM as
I get the error saying "usb-host" is not a valid device.

I tried to change that to usb-storage, since that is the class of device I see for it when doing lsusb -t, but I don't know what to pass for Device ID..If I leave it blank, it says property ".drive" is missing, as expected.

I tried doing a which printed out some information like
but with the command
it says no such property with given value exists.

So,

1. Should I be concerned that usb-host is not a valid device?
2. What do I need to do to get usb-storage with device id to work?
3. Does qemu-kvm support usb 2, 3 and streaming camera?

I'm using QEMU emulator version 4.1.0

Hi starbearer,

I'm *much* more familiar with Virtualbox than I am with KVM/Qemu/libvirt, but anytime I've added a usb device to be captured by a vm guest, I've always used the manufacturer:model syntax. In your case this would be 8564:1000, but you would have to look up the proper syntax to use with your hypervisor.

Hope this helps.

If you haven't tried virt-manager, I'd recommend it. Even if you want to go headless you can always setup in UI then manage from cli.

It makes adding devices much easier.

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I agree, having virt-manager makes it much easier to manage VMs in every way, unfortunately I am using a considerably locked down version of Linux, where many dependencies are lacking. Only have libvirt, difficult to install virt-manager, can't point dnf repo at centos or fedora repo either, the rpm packages always start complaining about missing dependencies, or wrong version packages. So roughing it out with qemu command line.