[Users] OpenVZ guest device passthrough

[Charles N Wyble]

Hello,

I've been happily using openvz and proxmox (with only openvz guests) for 
some time now.  Thank you very much for the fantastic work!

I have a desire to pass through some PCI and USB devices to a USB guest. 
Is this possible? I read the man page for vzctl and saw

   --devnodes device:[r][w][q]|none
               Give  the  container  an access (r - read, w - write, q - 
disk quota management, none - no access) to a device designated by the 
special file /dev/device. Device file is created in a container by 
vzctl. Example: vzctl set 777 --devnodes sdb:rwq.


but this seemed oriented towards disk drives. I'm not sure how to 
reference a PCI or USB device.

Searching around the net, I saw that KVM seems to support USB/PCI 
passthrough. Does OpenVZ (or I should say proxmox with kernel
Linux knel-prod-proxmox2 2.6.32-4-pve #1 SMP Thu Oct 21 09:35:29 CEST 
2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux) support arbitrary device pass through?

Thanks!

Please let me know if any additional information is required.




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Charles N Wyble
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President & CEO Known Element Enterprises