[lxc-users] Using devices in an unprivileged LXC container

[Christian Brauner]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 05:23:21PM +0000, Avadhut Bhangui wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an ubuntu system. i login to the device as root user. I have two LXC containers created using the busbox template. One is privileged and other one is unprivileged.
> I want to ensure that when a USB device is connected to my ubuntu box, i should be able grant access to the unprivileged container. What options are possible and how do we do this?

Are you using LXD or LXC?

For LXD it should be as simple as

lxc config device add <container-name> <device-name> usb vendorid=<id> productid=<id>

vendor and product id can be gathered via lsusb. For example:

lxc config device add c1 sony usb vendorid=0fce productid=51da

would pass through a specific Sony phone.

Christian