[nova] Do openstack support USB passthrough

Stephen Finucane stephenfin at redhat.com
Tue Jan 3 14:54:17 UTC 2023


On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 10:04 +0000, 韩光宇 wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I want to ask if openstack support USB passthrough now?
> 
> Or if I want the instance to recognize the USB flash drive on the
> host, do you have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Han

This isn't supported in nova and probably never will be. The closest you can get
is to passthrough an entire USB controller as suggested by this blog [1], but
that's really a hack and I 100% would not use it in production.

Stephen

[1] https://egallen.com/openstack-usb-passthrough/




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