USB redirection of flash drive failed in Windows 10 guest

[Chris Rainey]

Attempted to redirect USB flash drive to Windows 10 guest and when I toggled the "On" switch for the flash drive in the gnome-boxes "Devices" menu, I received a drop-down notification above the menu box informing me the redirect had "failed".

Not sure what else to add.

I'll attach the debug log from running the application using the following command:

$ SPICE_DEBUG=1 gnome-boxes > boxes.log 2>&1

Hope this helps.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-boxes 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-26.30-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 11 20:36:38 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-04 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is now dead
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-04-zesty-zapus-has-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-17-10-now-519360.shtml

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

[SOLVED] Remove the 'EvTouch usb tablet' driver using the virt-manager package as that is what is holding-up the redirection of the ports using the default installer of Win10 in gnome-boxes.

You have to connect your virt-manager to the 'user session' qemu channel in order to view the gnome-boxes images.