LXC USB Passthrough with hot-plug in Proxmox.⌗

Hello everyone.

I found this post that gave me the key to solve the hot-plug USB under LXC containers.

First of all, under /var/lib/lxc/<ct id>/ create the folder devices, go in and then execute this:

mknod -m 666 ttyACM0 c 166 0

In my case, ttyACM0 is my USB device (my Ender 3 printer). The second number 166 must be the same that you obtain if executed:

ls -la /dev/ttyACM0

When we have the correct device file, we can modify the container’s config file in /etc/pve/lxc/<ct id>:

lxc.mount.entry: /var/lib/lxc//devices/ttyACM0 dev/ttyACM0 none bind,optional,create=file

Now just restart the container and try.

If you found problems with device permissions, you can try a udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/90-octoprint.rules like this:

SUBSYSTEM==“tty”, ATTRS{idVendor}==“0483”, ATTRS{idProduct}==“5740”, MODE=“0666”, GROUP=“dialout”

Attributes idVendor and idProduct can be found with lsusb command:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS578 SATA 6Gb/s
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0483:5740 MARLIN_STM32G0B1RE

Remember to reload udev rules with udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger or restart the device.

Have fun!