Unable to access USB devices from WinXP under KVM/libvirt

[Alex Stark]

This is really extra info for bug #723361 but apport would not collect correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 1 13:31:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
KvmCmdLine:
 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
 jas 8091 7830 4 139831 15932 0 13:23 pts/0 00:00:23 kvm -usbdevice host:1b1c:0ab1
MachineType: LENOVO 6459CTO
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-28-generic root=UUID=89fa2236-7383-435b-a64e-2a1616117f49 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
dmi.bios.date: 10/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LET56WW (1.26 )
dmi.board.name: 6459CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LET56WW(1.26):bd10/18/2007:svnLENOVO:pn6459CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn6459CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6459CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Alex Stark (jalexstark)]

The USB device that I plugged in (1b1c:0ab1) is a Corsair Voyager memory stick. Similar problems (the lack of permission to access the device) were encountered with a Sennheiser USB headset (1395:3556).

Command line used:

kvm -usbdevice host:1b1c:0ab1