On 10/22/2015 4:15 PM, Nux! wrote:> Try giving the VM a Spice display, instead of VNC, see if that helps.no idea how to do this, I'm a total newb with KVM. all I actually want to do is attach a USB device to my existing and running KVM, but the instructions for doing this in virtsh are confusing (anything that requires editing XML files tends to give me a headache). specifically, I want the VM 'kfat' to 'own' Bus 005 Device 004: ID 08bb:2704 Texas Instruments Audio Codec ....... OK, I figured it out, I had to create a .xml file like... <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'> <source> <vendor id='0x08bb'/> <product id='0x2704'/> </source> </hostdev> and pass that to virsh attach-device vmname my.xml -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
Hi, On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:11 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:> On 10/22/2015 4:15 PM, Nux! wrote: > >> Try giving the VM a Spice display, instead of VNC, see if that helps. >> > > no idea how to do this, I'm a total newb with KVM. > >Go to virtual hardware details of your VM ( by clicking on the open button after selecting your VM), in that go to display sections and select spice from vnc. --Regards Ashishkumar S. Yadav
On 10/23/2015 3:40 AM, Ashish Yadav wrote:> Go to virtual hardware details of your VM ( by clicking on the open button > after selecting your VM), in that go to display sections and select spice > from vnc.you mean the open button, that if I push, causes virt-manager to exit ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz