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2020-01-15 21:51:49 -05:00

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Wacom and USB Redirection in Virtual Machines 2019-05-24T22:15:56-04:00 false

Virt-Manager is a great tool for managing virtual machines under Linux. Today I learned of Spice USB redirection. Essentially it allows you to switch USB devices from the host to the virtualized environment. This came in handy when I noticed that the graphics tablet device was not able to do pressure sensitivity on the Windows guest.

To achieve this goal, I removed the graphics tablet hardware device and manually redirected that USB device to the guest. I then remembered to install the Wacom drivers for the Windows VM.