Virtualization Station loses USB connection

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Hello everyone,

I got a QNAP TS-453D at a good price. Everything is working fine and it’s up to date, but I’m having a problem with a virtual machine in Virtualization Station.

As soon as I shut down or restart the VM, it loses the USB connection.

The log always shows the following error message:

[Virtualization Station] The USB device connected to virtual machine “HomeAssistant” is missing or disconnected.

I’m running Home Assistant as the VM, and a ConBee stick for Zigbee is plugged in. This works without any issues while running.

Is there a solution for this problem? Or is it possible to find out the reason for this behavior somewhere in another log? I always have to manually add the stick again and restart the VM.

QTS is 5.2.10.3577

Virt. Station is 4.2.0.281 (20260812)

Best regards, and thanks in advance for your help.

Holger

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USB connections are always a problem on VMStation.

You could try seeing if you can mount them permanently via virsh… but be careful: if you edit the VM in the GUI, all changes will be overwritten (I had to do this once for a “nested” Proxmox — the network adapters from the GUI were all incompatible).

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Ok, so virsh directly via SSH to a NAS?

I switched from Proxmox to have everything in one place (previously NAS and mini PC). It worked great there for years.

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Ah, just found it, I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

But basically, I’m just changing the VM’s config now, just not through the GUI, right?

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Exactly, every time you change anything else via the GUI, the settings you made with virsh get overwritten.