Bug 1278546

Summary:	re direct SD card
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	celtic <alias.rw2>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, crobinso, gscrivan, rbalakri
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Description celtic 2015-11-05 18:39:01 UTC

Description of problem:
not possible to redirect sd card

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Vitual Machine Manager 1.0.1

How reproducible:
hardware : laptop with built in sd card socket

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have sd card in built in sd card socket
2. it is not possible to redirect sd card, while it's possible for usb devices
3.

Actual results:
no command possible or use interface sd/usb to connect sd card to the computer

Expected results:
have dedicated command in menu to re direct sd card like for usb devices

Additional info:
host is currently kubuntu 15.10
all is going well between sd card and host

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2015-11-05 19:07:07 UTC

qemu doesn't support USB-style passthrough for sdcards. If you want your sdcard contents to be visible inside the VM, just create a new virtio or IDE disk using /dev/mmblk0p1 etc as the disk file.