CentOS - Dec 2014 - CentOS 6.6 KVM Windows 7 Pro VM Device USB 04e8:6860

I have a CentOS 6.6 system running KVM with a Win 7 Pro VM. Over the 
weekend I was playing around with the VM trying to get it to see my 
Samsung Note 4. Apparently I removed the phone without removing the 
hardware from the VM. Now the VM will not start because Device USB 
0438:6860 is not there. I tried to remove the hardware from the VM using 
virt-manager but that does not remove the error message and the VM will 
still not start. I did manage to get the phone to be recognized as 
Device USB 04e8:6860 at one point but then the VM would not start 
because the Device was "already in use." I presently seem to have the
VM
in a state where the phone is now Device USB 04e8:6865 but the VM will 
not start because of the missing USB 04e8:6860. A Google search did not 
seem to provide anything useful.

Is there anyway to get this VM to start ... for example can I tell it to 
ignore the USB device? Can I somehow manually remove Device 04e8:6860? I 
cannot believe I have to re-install just because of a missing USB device.

Thanks for any help.

-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)

On Monday, December 08, 2014 07:26:07 PM Paul R. Ganci
wrote:
> I have a CentOS 6.6 system running KVM with a Win 7 Pro VM. Over the
> weekend I was playing around with the VM trying to get it to see my
> Samsung Note 4. Apparently I removed the phone without removing the
> hardware from the VM. Now the VM will not start because Device USB
> 0438:6860 is not there. I tried to remove the hardware from the VM using
> virt-manager but that does not remove the error message and the VM will
> still not start. I did manage to get the phone to be recognized as
> Device USB 04e8:6860 at one point but then the VM would not start
> because the Device was "already in use." I presently seem to have
the VM
> in a state where the phone is now Device USB 04e8:6865 but the VM will
> not start because of the missing USB 04e8:6860. A Google search did not
> seem to provide anything useful.
> 
> Is there anyway to get this VM to start ... for example can I tell it to
> ignore the USB device? Can I somehow manually remove Device 04e8:6860? I
> cannot believe I have to re-install just because of a missing USB device.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
When I had a similar problem with an XP VM, there was an entry for the device 
in a .save file in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/

Mike

On 12/08/2014 07:54 PM, Michael Harnden wrote:
> On Monday, December 08, 2014 07:26:07 PM Paul R. Ganci wrote:
>> Is there anyway to get this VM to start ... for example can I tell it
to
>> ignore the USB device? Can I somehow manually remove Device 04e8:6860?
I
>> cannot believe I have to re-install just because of a missing USB
device.
> When I had a similar problem with an XP VM, there was an entry for the
device
> in a .save file in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Removing the .save file there fixed the 
issue.

-- 
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)