The most recent qemu 1.3.0+dfsg-5expubuntu3 has usb redirection disabled

[Boris Derzhavets]

View build log :-

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/131270469/buildlog_ubuntu-raring-amd64.qemu_1.3.0%2Bdfsg-5expubuntu3_UPLOADING.txt.gz

......
spice support yes (0.12.3/0.12.2)
rbd support yes
xfsctl support yes
nss used no
usb net redir no => should be "yes"
OpenGL support yes
libiscsi support no
.....

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

Now in my browser :-
......
spice support no (/)
.....

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

usb redir cannot be supported because

pool/universe/u/usbredir/libusbredirparser0_0.4.3-2_amd64.deb

is in universe. Note also that it is 0.4.3-2, whereas qemu's configure claims it requires 0.5.

Please do feel free to work toward getting that into main, then I would love to enable it in qemu.

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

What shoud I do to get "usbredir 0.6-1" moved from universe to main in 13.04 Raring ?

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

I believe if this page
                  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/usbredir/0.6-1
would report "main" instead of "universe" problem will be resolved.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Quoting Boris Derzhavets (<email address hidden>):
> What shoud I do to get "usbredir 0.6-1" moved from universe to main in
> 13.04 Raring ?

The main inclusion process is documented at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/+bug/1101978 for an
example of how spice was MIRed.

(Thanks!)

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

This bug depends on (a) bug 1126513, and (b) usbredir being updated to a new enough version.

[Daniel Kulesz (kuleszdl)]

Is there any workaround for people who want it "just to be working"?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Daniel,

the simplest workaround would be to build libvirt in a ppa with usb redirection enabled.

[tobias (j1n-po5ias-xqt)]

usb redirection is still disabled in qemu in saucy (13.10). Is that intentional or can it be fixed now ?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

qemu can't be linked against usbredir until bug 1126513 is resolved.

[Chris Merrett (chrisfu)]

A fix has been released for 14.04 5 days ago as per the following post: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbredir/+bug/1126513/comments/15

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Ah, excellent, thank you.

 status: triaged
 importance: medium
 assignee: serge-hallyn

[trendzetter (trendzetter)]

Does this mean we will all be enjoying qemu-kvm-spice with usb redirection in 14.04?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

In fact it is now enabled in 14.04.

 status: fixreleased