Thanks for helping out.
I tried uninstalling qemu, then building and installing usbredir-0.6, and then building and installing qemu-1.7.0, both from slackbuilds. info usbhost in guest monitor still gives: USB host devices not supported.
I also tried with the command line options suggested:
Code:
>>>qemu-system-i386 -usb -device usb-host,vendorid=0x0781,productid=0x5151 slack.vmdk
qemu-system-i386: -device usb-host,vendorid=0x0781,productid=0x5151: Parameter 'driver' expects device type
Maybe this is because I got the vendor or product id wrong. But either way I dont think thats the problem. I think the problem is that I somehow don't have usb support in qemu.
All I want is to pass through usb from host to guest. So I think that what I need is libusb, not usb-redir:
Code:
>>>./configure --help | grep usb
--disable-libusb disable libusb (for usb passthrough)
--enable-libusb enable libusb (for usb passthrough)
--disable-usb-redir disable usb network redirection support
--enable-usb-redir enable usb network redirection support
Trying to compile qemu manually I get this:
Code:
>>>./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu --enable-kvm --enable-libusb
ERROR: User requested feature libusb
configure was not able to find it
But I have checked and libusb-1.0.9 is installed.