HOWTO: Forwarding a USB device to a Guest VM in Xen on Fedora

This procedure works with fully virtualized VMs. I would assume it works with paravirtualized VMs as well...

Shut down and power off your VM

Unplug and re-plug your USB device to see what it appears as in dmesg, then run
    dmesg | grep ^usb

See these lines?:
    usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 7
    usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
    usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

This indicates that it is connected to Bus 003 as Device 008. Now run this:
    lsusb

Now look a device at Bus 003 Device 008:
    Bus 003 Device 008: ID 04b9:0300 Rainbow Technologies, Inc.

Note the ID...
    04b9:0300

Open the config.sxp file for the domain, usually located at:
    "/var/lib/xend/domains//config.sxp"

Look for a section similar to this:

    (platform
        ((usb 1)
            (device_model /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm)
            (boot c)
            (rtc_timeoffset -18008)
            (pae 1)
            (apic 1)
            (localtime 1)
            (acpi 1)
        )
    )
   
Add your USB device:

    (platform
        ((usb 1)
            (device_model /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm)
            (boot c)
            (rtc_timeoffset -18008)
            (pae 1)
            (apic 1)
            (localtime 1)
            (acpi 1)
            (usbdevice host:04b9:0300)
        )
    )

Restart xend:
    /etc/init.d/xend restart

Start your VM