Hi Dave, Time flies, doesn't it? :-) My reply is not related to this patch series, but rather your use case... On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:50:28 -0400, Dave Allan wrote: > My usecase is that I'm flashing the USB device with a program running > in the VM. I keep the VM running, and when I need to reflash, I > connect the device, so having the startupPolicy optional is useful. Have you tried using redirdev for this? It might be much more convenient. You can dynamically attach a USB device to your host while the domain is running and select it to be passed to the guest in your spice client (both virt-manager and virt-viewer support this). Jirka -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list