How do I share a USB DVD Writer on a Linux host machine with a virtualised windows guest using Virt-manager?

Asked Nov 28 '20 at 03:23

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I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed, and the windows guest is a Windows 10 instance.

I tried to share the drive by passing through the USB host device but I could not find it on Windows. I looked around and found guides for VirtualBox but performance is important in my case so near-native virtualisation is my only option.

My system (laptop) has an i7 6820HQ and IOMMU so passthrough should not be problematic.

edited Nov 28 '20 at 03:56

Giacomo1968

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asked Nov 28 '20 at 03:23

gny-001f2

Have you looked at the content of this very similar answer here? – Giacomo1968 Nov 28 '20 at 03:58
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@Giacomo1968 I don't see why that would be a problem. Virt-manager requires root access to even connect to the VMs that are currently running, so the VM should have no problem accessing the DVD drive. – gny-001f2 Nov 28 '20 at 13:49

How do I share a USB DVD Writer on a Linux host machine with a virtualised windows guest using Virt-manager?

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