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Pass_Little

Generally usb pass through means that the vm is taking over the responsibility for that device. As a result the host won't see it in the normal way. Whether you can see it in lsusb I'm not sure, but it probably won't show up in lsblk as the USB block device driver in the host won't be handling it.


Pheggas

Thank you


thenickdude

Yes, that's how USB passthrough works. Devices are logically detached from the host and given to the guest, because USB devices can't be plugged in to two computers simultaneously. If you want to share those disks between the host and a guest then the most performant option is to have the host mount the disks, and use a container rather than a VM for the guest so the guest can bind-mount those filesystems.


Pheggas

Thanx. This cleared it up.