sys-usb not working on Qubes 3.2

[guz...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I successfully installed Qubes 3.2 with sys-usb experimental VM build enabled. I can start sys-usb VM and see the USB devices controllers attached to it from a sys-usb terminal:

[user@sys-usb ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

However, after inserting an USB drive (mass storage or USB mouse) it didn't work as expected: the commands qvm-usb and qvm-block -l in dom0 don't show anything, and I can't access the attached device. It seems that I can't list all available block devices connected to any USB controller in my system.

I read this guide https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/, but I couldn't find any solution.

Any help? Do I miss something? Do I need to bring more information about this problem to get a solution?

Thanks in advance,

Guzmán

[Unman]

Which template are you using?
When you insert the device do you see it connected in sys-usb?
If you attach a USB drive can you interact with it in sys-usb? For
example, mount it there?

[cez...@gmail.com]

I had a similar issue once (never got it solved). I attempted to make a PCI card with 4 full USB controllers, one pr. USB port. It never worked, whatever I did, it was just impossible, even with pci strictreset set to false.
Then I bought a new PCI card with a single controller, with 2 USB ports. It worked flawlessly when assigned to a VM, I never had to do anything, it just worked.

Perhaps you are experiencing something similar?

[Drew White]

I've been having issues with Sys-USB in 3.2 since it came out.

I install it with the system, I do a full update of Dom0.

It takes over all the USB's.

After that, I can't get eSATA Combo to work, nor any USB drive.

Sys-USB doesn't detect the drives, it doesn't see that there is a drive there when it is plugged in. It's like it just hides those devices from the whole Laptop.

On my PC..
I have a 4 port USB3 card. (one controller 4 ports)
I have 2 separate on-board USB systems.
- One has 2 ports, I have mouse and keyboard plugged in there.

I attach the 4 port and the one without the kbd/mouse on it to the sys-usb and i lose keyboard and mouse.
I attach the monitor hub to the sys-usb and i can't use the monitor hub any more as it loses everything to do with USB on it.

I can't even get an HDD-VM to work properly because newly attached HDDs won't work even when they are hot-swap on-board when I have a sys-usb in place.

Didn't matter if I had the card in or not.