Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10.0 & Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 USB redirection for Ubuntu Precise, Oneiric and Linux Mint 12 (Lisa)

Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ on Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 with intend to build Qemu-kvm 1.0 with usb redirection network support per http://planet.spice-space.org/. Current build qemu-kvm for Ubuntu Precise is based on branch http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu/. View similar PPA for Ubuntu Oneiric and Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10.0 & Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 USB redirection and Libvirt 0.9.7-2 for Ubuntu Oneiric(v.6).Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 has been built up on current snapshot of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk to obtain Spice-Gtk with usb redirection support working stable with Spice 0.10.0. Builds have been done on Ubuntu Precise and Oneiric as well.Packaged version version of Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 is built up on mentioned git repository. Running autogen.sh with exported environment variable NOCONFIGURE allows to perform it in one build per Debian’s Spice-Gtk-0.7-3 building schema, however requiring several updates to debian/control and debian/rules due to snapshots have to be done from current git tree.Upgrade version of Libvirt up to 0.9.7-2 allows to avoid using “qemu” command line (libvirt 0.9.2) and follow http://planet.spice-space.org/ update VM’s XML profile under /etc/libvirt/qemu/ as suggested in second blog entry of Hans de Goede.

$ git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu
$ cd qemu
$ git checkout -B qemu-kvm-1.0-usbredir origin/qemu-kvm-1.0-usbredir
$ cd ..
$ cp -R qemu qemu-kvm-1.0-usbredir

Intermediate release :-
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu/log/?h=qemu-kvm-1.0-usbredir
clearly demonstrates that all usb redirection patches won’t be in Qemu-kvm 1.0 release

Libusb build is based on libusb-1.0.9-rc3 official package
Qemu-kvm 1.0 debian/rules contains:-

./configure \
–target-list=”x86_64-softmmu i386-softmmu x86_64-linux-user i386-linux-user” \
–prefix=/usr \
–interp-prefix=/etc/qemu-binfmt/%M \
–disable-blobs \
–disable-strip \
–enable-spice \
–enable-usb-redir \
$(conf_arch)

VirtFS support is available.

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To install packages from Precise PPA
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir56
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu qemu-common qemu-utils \
spice-client libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libusbredir libusbredir-dev usbredir-server \
libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev \
libspice-client-glib-2.0-4 libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev \
python-spice-client-gtk spice-client-gtk \
gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0 \
gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-2.0 \
gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0

$ sudo apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer
$ sudo adduser $USER libvirtd
$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/

Successful install looks like :-

boris@UbuntuPrecise:~$ dpkg -l |grep libspice
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-4         0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GObject for communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev       0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GObject for communicating with Spice servers (development files)
ii  libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1          0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GTK2 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
ii  libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev        0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GTK2 widget for SPICE clients (development files)
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1          0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev        0.7.81~4f76-2ubuntu6    GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (development files)
ii  libspice-protocol-dev              0.10.0-2ubuntu2         SPICE protocol headers
ii  libspice-server-dev                0.10.0-2ubuntu7         Header files and development documentation for spice-server
ii  libspice-server1                   0.10.0-2ubuntu7         Implements the server side of the SPICE protocol

boris@UbuntuPrecise:~$ dpkg -l |grep qemu
ii  qemu                                1.0-usbredir-2ubuntu3   dummy transitional package from qemu to qemu-kvm
ii  qemu-common                         1.0-usbredir-2ubuntu3   qemu common functionality (bios, documentation, etc)
ii  qemu-kvm                            1.0-usbredir-2ubuntu3   Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware

boris@UbuntuPrecise:~$ dpkg -l |grep libvirt
ii  libvirt-bin                         0.9.7-2ubuntu2         programs for the libvirt library
ii  libvirt0                            0.9.7-2ubuntu2         library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii  python-libvirt                      0.9.7-2ubuntu2         libvirt Python bindings

boris@boris-System-Product-P5Q3:~$ virsh version
Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.7
Using library: libvir 0.9.7
Using API: QEMU 0.9.7
Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.15.92

Per Hans de Goede – first create file /etc/qemu/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg

[device "ehci"]
driver = "ich9-usb-ehci1"
addr = "1d.7"
multifunction = "on"

[device "uhci-1"]
driver = "ich9-usb-uhci1"
addr = "1d.0"
multifunction = "on"
masterbus = "ehci.0"
firstport = "0"

[device "uhci-2"]
driver = "ich9-usb-uhci2"
addr = "1d.1"
multifunction = "on"
masterbus = "ehci.0"
firstport = "2"

[device "uhci-3"]
driver = "ich9-usb-uhci3"
addr = "1d.2"
multifunction = "on"
masterbus = "ehci.0"
firstport = "4"

Upgrade version of Libvirt up to 0.9.7 allows to avoid using “qemu” command line (libvirt 0.9.2) and follow http://planet.spice-space.org/ update VM’s XML profile under /etc/libvirt/qemu/ as suggested in second blog entry of Hans de Goede (September 09, 2011):-
Change the first line from: <domain type=’kvm’> to:
<domain type=’kvm’ xmlns:qemu=’http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0′&gt;
And add the following lines at the end, above the “</domain>” line:
<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value=’-readconfig’/>
<qemu:arg value=’/etc/qemu/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-chardev’/>
<qemu:arg value=’spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev1’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-device’/>
<qemu:arg value=’usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev1,id=usbredirdev1,bus=ehci.0,debug=3’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-chardev’/>
<qemu:arg value=’spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev2’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-device’/>
<qemu:arg value=’usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev2,id=usbredirdev2,bus=ehci.0,debug=3’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-chardev’/>
<qemu:arg value=’spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev3’/>
<qemu:arg value=’-device’/>
<qemu:arg value=’usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev3,id=usbredirdev3,bus=ehci.0,debug=3’/>
</qemu:commandline>

Then run :-

# /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart







Remote Qemu&Spice USB redirection. WIN7 VM is running on Server. USB pen plugged in workstation located on the same LAN, with Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 installed. Connection installed via spicy running by root.