Where is your focus when you connect the phone to the computer? I sometimes had an issue with host grabbing the usb when the focus (mouse cursor) was outside of the virtual machine, but whenever the mouse was "trapped" in the VM window, the guest could obtain the usb device.

Maybe, it was mere coincidence, but you can at least try it.

L.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 1:10 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@greshko.com> wrote:
On 2019-12-01 19:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-12-01 at 14:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> My system is a fully updated F31 running the KDE desktop.  It is the host, and I've got a qemu guest running
>> F31 and the Xfce desktop.
>>
>> I would like to test access to a Samsung phone on the guest connected via USB.
>>
>> However, the host system grabs it and I can't seem to find a way to release it so the guest can access.
>> There is no "eject" function in the "Device Notifier".  Nor is does there seem to be a way to tell
>> KDE not to grab the device.
>>
>> How to achieve the goal?
> I use virt-manager. In the Preferences menu the options for New VM
> include "Add Spice USB redirection - Yes", and my USB devices appear
> automatically in the guest. Presumably that can be changed for existing
> VMs as well.
>

Sure, that is what I have.  But the VM can't obtain the Samsung phone because it is "in use" by the
host.  Even if I check the box, I get an error.  The phone shows up in the Device Notifier of the host
and I need it to be released and not show there.  I have no problem with flash drives and usb WiFi dongles.


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