Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 686613] Re: USB MSD are not marked as removable

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Sebastian Malcolm
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan, you fixed this  in QEMU 24 Jan 2011 so this bug can be marked as
> Fixed Released?

Yes

> However, I cannot see a way to set "removable=on" for usb-storage
> devices started via libvirt (in 12.04, with libvirt-bin
> 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.1 and virt-manager 0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1).
>
> So, is a feature request required for virt-manager to expose this option
> for virtual disks (default to 'on' for bus='usb') and add support to
> libvirt's XML to set "removable=on" ?

Yes, I just checked libvirt.git/master and cannot see a way to set the
removable option.  I'm afraid libvirt also needs changes.

Stefan