I am trying to passthrough my USB Webcam into my Windows 7 Enterprise x86-64 QEMU/KVM guest, which is managed by virt-manager.
First I lookup the bus/device ID:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
[...]
Then I open the running guest in virt-manager and click Hardware Details > Add Hardware > USB Host Device
and select the correct device ID. Here the first oddity shows up: virt-manager shows no name for the device, only the ID.
Immediately after I click "Finish", Windows 7 detects a new device being plugged in and installs a driver for it. Sadly it detects it as "NEC USB HUB", instead of as a webcam.
My question is:
- How do I correctly passthrough a device from Linux to Windows, so that it shows up as a webcam there?
The host OS is Ubuntu 14.04 x86-64 and the guest is Windows 7 Enterprise x86-64, both having installed all updates.
Ubuntu runs Linux 3.13.0-43-generic, virt-manager 0.9.5-1ubuntu3 and qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9.
During the installation of Windows, I installed the Windows virtio drivers version 0.1-94, and after the installation of Windows added the Windows spice-guest-tools version 0.74. Another oddity that the guest shows is that it is unable to shutdown after installing the spice-guest-tools.
This same question was already asked on Stack Overflow, which seems to be the wrong place for this type of questions.
Best Answer
Check this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135488 , quote from there:
The solution could be: Delete a couple of the USB redirector devices,