[asterisk-users] Issues with Xorcom astribanks when running Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) as a quemu/libvirt guest

[Eric van der Vlist]

Hi,

Xorcom astribanks get initialized straight on when using Ubuntu 11.10
packages but I am having a hard time to get the same result running in a
qemu/libvirt image.

The first difficulty is that astribanks devices get different usb device
ids during their initialisation process, requiring hot plug support.

I have figured out how to solve this issue using the technique described
in this post :
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2011/04/11/how-to-auto-hotplug-usb-devices-to-libvirt-vms/

That doesn't seem to be enough and the initialisation fails with a
status 1:

Oct 28 18:58:19 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1006]: Trying to find what to
do for product e4e4/1160/101, device /dev/bus/usb/001/004
Oct 28 18:58:19 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1010]: Loading firmware
'/usr/share/dahdi/USB_FW.hex' into '/dev/bus/usb/001/004'
Oct 28 18:58:23 asterisk-rg 'xpp_fxloader'[1024]: Trying to find what to
do for product e4e4/1161/101, device /dev/bus/usb/001/005
Oct 28 18:58:34 asterisk-rg
'xpp_fxloader'[1035]: /usr/sbin/astribank_tool failed with status 1

Seeing that Xorcom requires USB 2.0 and that the current versions of
libvirt and qemu in Ubuntu 11.10 emulate USB 1.10 in guests, I have
installed Boris Derzhavets' packages:
https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/seabios163 and updated my
host definition to emulate USB 2.0 but I still have the same issue.

Have I missed something?

Thanks,

Eric