[ovirt-users] Windows USB Redirection

[Abi Askushi]

Hi Michal,

Thank you for your tip.
Do you have any example how this attribute can be extended to avoid
changing the default?

Thanx
Abi

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Michal Skrivanek <
michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On 11 Jul 2017, at 10:09, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Finally I was able to pin-point the issue.
> Just in case ones needs this.
>
>
> ovirt by default enables USB 1.0 controller.
>
> To enable USB 2.0 controller go to
>
> At ovirt engine at config file below, change the controller from piix3-uhci
> to piix4-uhci as below:
>
>
> piix4-uhci is still USB1 controller
> the one we use is still the most compatible default, we do not test any
> other (other than set of USB2 and USB1 companions when using SPICE)
> you’re welcome to overwrite it (not by changing the defaults which gets
> overwritten on upgrade, but rather extending it by your custom properties,
> ideally per OS type where you need that change)
> You can use all the QEMU supported controllers, e.g. xhci if you want USB3
>
> Thanks,
> michal
>
>
> /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d/00-defaults.properties
>
>
> os.other.devices.usb.controller.value = piix4-uhci
>
>
> then restart engine:
> systemctl restart ovirt-engine
>
>
> USB device then is attached successfully at Windows VM.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have Ovirt 4.1 with 3 nodes on top glusterfs.
>>
>> I Have 2 VMs: Windows 2016 64bit and Windows 10 64bit
>>
>> When I attach a USB flash disk to a VM (from host devices) the VM cannot
>> see the USB drive and report driver issue at device manager (see attached).
>> This happens with both VMs when tested.
>>
>> When testing with Windows 7 or Windows XP USB is attached and accessed
>> normally.
>> Have you encountered such issue?
>> I have installed latest guest tools on both VMs.
>>
>> Many thanx
>>
>>
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