Re: [Qemu-devel] DETECTING AND USING USB MEMORY STICKS IN QEMU

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:03 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> PLEASE COULD YOU KINDLY GIVE ME ADVICE ON HOW TO DETECT A USB MEMORY STICK IN 
> QEMU RUNNING LINUX SO THAT THE LINUX APPLICATION CAN "SEE" AND WRITE TO THE 
> MEMORY STICK

Please don't write in capitals.

Once you plug your stick to the host computer, you can figure out its
VID:PID by running 'lsusb'.
suppose you find VID=dead and PID=beef

Then you can start qemu with

-usbdevice host:auto:*:*:dead:beef

and qemu will auto-detect the device and assign it to itself.

Cheers,
Pantelis