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A bash script to start a windows 7 vm with with the web cam attached to use skype, because microsoft are horrible and forgot they have a Linux client.
#!/bin/sh
export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa
DISKIMG=/mnt/data-7/qemu/win7/win7.img
WIN7IMG=
VIRTIMG=/media/storage/iso/virtio-win-0.1.118.iso
sudo chmod 666 /dev/bus/usb/$(lsusb | grep LifeCam | awk '{split($4,a,":"); print $2"/"a[1] }')
qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -drive file=${DISKIMG},format=raw,if=virtio,aio=native,cache=none -m 2048 \
-net nic,model=virtio -net user -rtc base=localtime,clock=host \
-soundhw hda -cpu host -smp 4 -vga vmware -device nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci \
-usbdevice tablet -device usb-host,bus=xhci.0,vendorid=0x045e,productid=0x0779 $*
#-cdrom ${WIN7IMG} -drive file=${VIRTIMG},index=3,media=cdrom \
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