Set up Qemu&Spice USB Redirection on Ubuntu 11.10 (v.1)

View for initial setup https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/lib-usbredir5

Qemu-kvm 0.15 with usbredir support has been built per http://planet.spice-space.org/
via Hans de Goede git repository:-

$ git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu
$ cd qemu
$ git checkout -B qemu-kvm-0.15.0-usbredir origin/qemu-kvm-0.15.0-usbredir
$ git log|more

Qemu-kvm debian/rules contains:-

./configure \
      --target-list="x86_64-softmmu i386-softmmu x86_64-linux-user i386-linux-user" \
      --prefix=/usr \
      --interp-prefix=/etc/qemu-binfmt/%M \
      --disable-blobs \
      --disable-strip \
      --enable-spice \
      --enable-usb-redir \
      $(conf_arch)

Spicy should be run by root, view http://planet.spice-space.org/

Package spice-client-gtk moved to GTK3 build.
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To install packages from PPA
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu qemu-common \
  spice-client seabios \
  libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev \
  libusbredir libusbredir-dev \
  libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev \
  libspice-client-glib-2.0-4 libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev \
  libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev \
  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev \
  python-spice-client-gtk spice-client-gtk

$ sudo apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer

You might have to disable apparmor profile for libvirtd

$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
$ sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd
$ sudo adduser $USER kvm

Normal start looks like :-
boris@boris-System-P5Q3:~$ sudo /usr/bin/kvm -cpu host -enable-kvm \
> -name VF15HQ -m 2048 \
> -drive file=/dev/sdb5,if=virtio,media=disk,aio=native,cache=off \
> -net nic,model=virtio -net user -localtime \
> -usb -vga qxl -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing \
> -device virtio-serial \
> -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,name=vdagent \
> -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \
> -readconfig /etc/qemu/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg \
> -chardev spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev1 \
> -device usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev1,id=usbredirdev1,debug=3 \
> -chardev spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev2 \
> -device usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev2,id=usbredirdev2,debug=3 \
> -chardev spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev3 \
> -device usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev3,id=usbredirdev3,debug=3
do_spice_init: starting 0.9.1
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MOUSE
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_QXL
red_worker_main: begin
ensure_display_channel_created: create display channel
ensure_cursor_channel_created: create cursor channel
*** EHCI support is under development ***
spice_server_char_device_add_interface: CHAR_DEVICE usbredir
spice_server_char_device_add_interface: CHAR_DEVICE usbredir
spice_server_char_device_add_interface: CHAR_DEVICE usbredir
handle_dev_input: start
spice_server_char_device_add_interface: CHAR_DEVICE vdagent