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====== KVM / QEMU Cheatsheet ======

Part of [[engineering:computer_science:linux:linux|Linux]]

====== Issues and Solutions ======

===== USB Passthough to KVM Guest =====

Usefull if you get a similar error to:\\
"Error adding device: internal error: vendor cannot be 0."

Find your vendor and product ID with
<code>

lsusb

</code>

example output:

<code>
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2:231a Seagate RSS LLC Expansion Portable
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0424:5534 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05c8:0397 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) HP HD Camera
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:2134 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

</code>

Then replace your vendorID:productID in your XML configuration and add it.