[ovirt-users] USB redirect

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:08 , Juan Jose <jj197005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much Michal, If I have checked Device administrator in my Windows 7 VM and as you can see in the attached image, the USB device is correctly installed. But when I click "File" in remote-viewer "USB device selection" appears in grey and I can't select any USB device.
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> Is there any other requirement to be able redirect USB devices?, Is it necessary to install usbclerk in Windows clients to redirect USB to the Windows guest?

usbredir drivers yes, you need them, they should be on the guest tools iso

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Many thanks in advanced,
> 
> Juanjo.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 10, 2014, at 17:54 , Juan Jose <jj197005 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I have  an oVirt 3.4 deployment and I have some Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bits guests. I can't redirect USB from a Windows 7 client. I'm using remote - viewer as console. Also I have observed something wrong in my administration portal. The oVirt documentation says that I have to select Native USB mode in console properties in VM configuration
> 
> yes, that's the only supported way
> you should see the USB controller in devices
> 
> > but after select this mode, it doesn't remain. If I check this  value in console configuration again I can see disabled, native mode value have been changed.
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> there used to be such issue in 3.4..it is fixed in 3.5 already.
> It should be a UI problem only…
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> Thanks,
> michal
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> >
> > Is there someone have had this problem?, and how I can solve it?, is it necessary to install in Windows clients us clerk software?
> >
> > Many thanks in advanced.
> >
> > Juanjo.
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