5 The QEMU EHCI Adapter does *not* support companion controllers. That
6 implies there are two completely separate USB busses: One USB 1.1 bus
7 driven by the UHCI controller and one USB 2.0 bus driven by the EHCI
8 controller. Devices must be attached to the correct controller
11 The '-usb' switch will make qemu create the UHCI controller as part of
12 the PIIX3 chipset. The USB 1.1 bus will carry the name "usb.0".
14 You can use the standard -device switch to add a EHCI controller to
15 your virtual machine. It is strongly recommended to specify an ID for
16 the controller so the USB 2.0 bus gets a individual name, for example
17 '-device usb-ehci,id=ehci". This will give you a USB 2.0 bus named
20 I strongly recomment to also use -device to attach usb devices because
21 you can specify the bus they should be attached to this way. Here is
24 qemu -M pc ${otheroptions} \
25 -drive if=none,id=usbstick,file=/path/to/image \
27 -device usb-ehci,id=ehci \
28 -device usb-tablet,bus=usb.0 \
29 -device usb-storage,bus=ehci.0,drive=usbstick
31 This attaches a usb tablet to the UHCI adapter and a usb mass storage
32 device to the EHCI adapter.
35 More USB tips & tricks
36 ======================
38 Recently the usb pass through driver (also known as usb-host) and the
39 qemu usb subsystem gained a few capabilities which are available only
40 via qdev properties, i,e. when using '-device'.
43 physical port addressing
44 ------------------------
46 First you can (for all usb devices) specify the physical port where
47 the device will show up in the guest. This can be done using the
48 "port" property. UHCI has two root ports (1,2). EHCI has four root
49 ports (1-4), the emulated (1.1) USB hub has eight ports.
51 Plugging a tablet into UHCI port 1 works like this:
53 -device usb-tablet,bus=usb.0,port=1
55 Plugging a hub into UHCI port 2 works like this:
57 -device usb-hub,bus=usb.0,port=2
59 Plugging a virtual usb stick into port 4 of the hub just plugged works
62 -device usb-storage,bus=usb.0,port=2.4,drive=...
64 You can do basically the same in the monitor using the device_add
65 command. If you want to unplug devices too you should specify some
66 unique id which you can use to refer to the device ...
68 (qemu) device_add usb-tablet,bus=usb.0,port=1,id=my-tablet
69 (qemu) device_del my-tablet
71 ... when unplugging it with device_del.
74 USB pass through hints
75 ----------------------
77 The usb-host driver has a bunch of properties to specify the device
78 which should be passed to the guest:
80 hostbus=<nr> -- Specifies the bus number the device must be attached
83 hostaddr=<nr> -- Specifies the device address the device got
84 assigned by the guest os.
86 hostport=<str> -- Specifies the physical port the device is attached
89 vendorid=<hexnr> -- Specifies the vendor ID of the device.
90 productid=<hexnr> -- Specifies the product ID of the device.
92 In theory you can combine all these properties as you like. In
93 practice only a few combinations are useful:
95 (1) vendorid+productid -- match for a specific device, pass it to
96 the guest when it shows up somewhere in the host.
98 (2) hostbus+hostport -- match for a specific physical port in the
99 host, any device which is plugged in there gets passed to the
102 (3) hostbus+hostaddr -- most useful for ad-hoc pass through as the
103 hostaddr isn't stable, the next time you plug in the device it
106 Note that USB 1.1 devices are handled by UHCI/OHCI and USB 2.0 by
107 EHCI. That means a device plugged into the very same physical port
108 may show up on different busses depending on the speed. The port I'm
109 using for testing is bus 1 + port 1 for 2.0 devices and bus 3 + port 1
110 for 1.1 devices. Passing through any device plugged into that port
111 and also assign them to the correct bus can be done this way:
113 qemu -M pc ${otheroptions} \
115 -device usb-ehci,id=ehci \
116 -device usb-host,bus=usb.0,hostbus=3,hostport=1 \
117 -device usb-host,bus=ehci.0,hostbus=1,hostport=1
123 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>