USB passthrough does not work in UTM, but is possible with QEMU(?)

[cobbm]

I'm using the latest UTM 2.0.25, MacOS Big Sur on an M1 Macbook Air 2020.
My guest OS is Windows XP SP3 and was installed using the configuration from the UTM Gallery.
I need to use a piece of software only supported by Windows XP with a USB FTDI serial-to-usb device.
I'm trying to pass USB from the host to guest by adding the following additional QEMU argument to the VM in UTM:

-usb -device usb-host,productid=0x6001,vendorid=0x0403

I have tried adding the command on one 'line' and also split by spaces (as it appears the generated QEMU argument list is built this way - with no luck).

When I start the VM, I get the following error:

libqemu-x86_64-softmmu.utm.dylib: -device usb-host,productid=0x6001,vendorid=0x0403: 'usb-host' is not a valid device model name

While trying to get this working, I have built a version of QEMU from source, and I can use the argument above to successfully boot the XP guest and pass the USB device through, so it is theoretically possible to support USB passthrough, although it seems UTM's version of QEMU does not allow it?
For some reason, my version of QEMU built from source is so slow and is unusable. It takes about 15 minutes to boot to desktop (!!!) and is unusably slow. UTM's emulation is MUCH faster and is more than usable - I'd also much prefer using UTM for the GUI.

Is there any way to enable USB passthrough in UTM? Or can I rebuild UTM's QEMU with USB passthrough support?

[osy]

Duplicate of #46

[cobbm]

Sorry, I'm not sure how this is a duplicate of #46. I'm talking about the MacOS app, not the iOS app.

[muddog]

Same issue here. Any solution for M1 UTM/QEMU to passthrough a USB device?

[osy]

The issue was closed because #46 tracked the progress for integrating libusb into UTM. It was originally phrased for iOS because there was no macOS version at the time. It has now been implemented in v2.1.1 and should work by enabling it in the configuration (Sharing) and selecting your usb device from the toolbar.

[equivalent]

@osy

should work by enabling it in the configuration (Sharing) and selecting your usb device from the toolbar

sorry I have no idea how to enable this, trying everything in the macbook interface. Can you pls elaborate on this ?

Let say I've plugged in an External hdd formated as ext4 (Linux fs) I want to pass it to UTM Ubuntu virtual machine. How would I do that please ?

[equivalent]

ah ok I've found it. Took me a while to find that button

[osy]

FYI in the next release it will be moved to Input.

[dhirajftcsolar]

Same thing I am looking for so that from M1 MAC USB tty can ported inside the VM and from there to inside docker container.

[rafaeltoth]

How's it working in UTM/QEMU?
I saw that FTDI released VCP drivers for Windows Arm. but much of embedded drivers are still x86 only.
Did you guys managed to get x86 usb drivers working?

[dhirajftcsolar]

Yes it worked perfectly

[rafaeltoth]

You used via x86 or windows arm?

[davibe]

I did everything mentioned here. I do not see my device listed in the usb device ( a keyboard ). I am using 3.2.3 (57) on a M1 max MacBook Pro