for a certain web application i need an IE browser with an usb device
containing a security key (the USB is formatted as a isofs)
my idea was to simply run a windows copy on a server with KVM, logon
with RDP and use that to connect to that dreaded website, it all works
except that i can't see a way to mount a USB, i thought it would be
simple to:
create an image (+- 1GB)
have it attached as usb within the guest
have the contents of the original usb copied to the image
can't get it done using virt-manager and can find little info to edit
the xml file as such.
again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough, just
to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as originally
intended.
anybody has a clue?
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Randall wrote at 2012-06-26 07:55 -0500:
> again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough,
> just to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as
> originally intended.
With simple kvm, you can connect a USB device to the guest OS using
command-line options or after booted using the interface accessed with
ctrl-alt-2.
But I am not sure about connecting a virtual usb drive; first you need to
acquire an image of the flash disk, with dd perhaps? Then, the kvm man page
describes how to connect an image as a usb mass storage device.
kvm - mount usb device in windows guest
