utmapp / utmapp/UTM

Add USB sharing option to macOS guest (from macOS host)

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Description

With an e.g. Windows guest UTM offers sharing settings including for USB devices:

Screen Shot 2022-03-14 at 3 26 33 PM

But no such settings are available for a macOS guest:

Screen Shot 2022-03-14 at 3 26 05 PM

Can USB devices be shared with the new Virtualization framework? [Update: fwiw, I'm sure not seeing anything related to USB passthrough in Apple's overview documentation… ☹️ ]

(Sorry if this is a duplicate, I could not find one. This is in a somewhat similar vein as https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3567 — the new Virtualization.framework is still missing some features compared to the QEMU settings. File sharing is another such but I'm focusing this request on USB specifically since there's userspace options for transferring files, but not really any good workaround for passing through a USB device.)

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