Qemu-kvm 0.15.1 & Spice USB Redirection for Ubuntu Precise (v.1)

PPA description

Qemu-kvm 0.15.1 has been patched via top 28 commits from
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu/log/?h=qemu-kvm-0.15.0-usbredir

Patches set for debian build may be generated as follows :
$ 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
$ mkdir -p /tmp/patches
$ git format-patch -M -C --output-directory \
/tmp/patches ea2798c1ebe0c12d5feb7d7471a999ea0671ef2f

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)

VirtFS support is available.

You may attach to your system PPA https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/experimental
and install libvirt 0.9.7 been built via git repo. It should fix issue with VirtManager
disconnections from Qemu at domain shuts down.

To start default network :-
sudo virsh net-start default
sudo virsh net-autostart default

Kernel installed 3.1.0-030100-generic

Consider option downgrade seabios 1.6.3 => 0.6.2-qxl if some things go wrong for you.
It won't affect USB Redirection support

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

Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 follows Debian's 0.7-3 packaging schema

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To install packages from PPA
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir21
$ 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 \
  gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0 \
  gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-2.0 \
  gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0

$ 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

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir21 to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir21
sudo apt update
        
Technical details about this PPA

This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources.

deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/bderzhavets/lib-usbredir21/ubuntu precise main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/bderzhavets/lib-usbredir21/ubuntu precise main 
Signing key:
1024R/5B1808A64B70CB62E45C71865CC1785DC05C1EB5 (What is this?)
Fingerprint:
5B1808A64B70CB62E45C71865CC1785DC05C1EB5

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Boris Derzhavets.

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libusb-1.0 2:1.0.9-4ubuntu9 Boris Derzhavets ()
libvirt 0.9.7~release2-2ubuntu3 (Newer version available) Boris Derzhavets ()
qemu-kvm 102911-2ubuntu6 Boris Derzhavets ()
seabios 0.6.2-qxl-1ubuntu3 Boris Derzhavets ()
spice 0.9.1-3ubuntu8 (Newer version available) Boris Derzhavets ()
spice-gtk 781-2ubuntu5 Boris Derzhavets ()
spice-protocol 0.9.0-1ubuntu1 (Newer version available) Boris Derzhavets ()
usbredir 0.3.1-1ubuntu5 Boris Derzhavets ()
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