I now have a working USB 3.0 drive on my Windows 7 guest using QEMU 2.1. Here is what I think is the working “Recipe” for this on Ubuntu 14.04:<\/p>\n
Get the newest (at the time of this writing) Seabios: from http:\/\/http.us.debian.org\/debian\/pool\/main\/s\/seabios\/seabios_1.7.5-1_all.deb
\nsudo dpkg -i seabios_1.7.5-1_all.deb
\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob\/virtualisation
\nsudo apt-get update
\nsudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/p>\n
I then got my Windows 7 driver from http:\/\/plugable.com\/drivers\/renesas. I chose the driver for the older card listed on that page: “Plugable PCI-e cards purchased before 10\/16\/2012 are \u00b5PD720200 based and require the 2.1.39.0 driver package.” The direct link for the download is https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/plugable\/bin\/2014-03-Plugable-Renesas-USB-3.0-200-2.1.39.0.zip<\/p>\n
After installing the driver, everything worked!<\/p>\n
Other notes:<\/p>\n
I am not using passthrough (although I will probably test this later to see if there is any performance difference).
\nI am using Virt-Manager from the ppa above (THANK YOU Jacob Zimmermann!)
\nI have the usb controller set to usb 3.0 in the VM configuration.<\/p>\n
There was much rejoicing — but I will spare the world any and all images of my happy dance… NO ONE wants to see that..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I now have a working USB 3.0 drive on my Windows 7 guest using QEMU 2.1. Here is what I think is the working “Recipe” for this on Ubuntu 14.04: Get the newest (at the time of this writing) Seabios: …<\/p>\n