QEMU 5.1 no longer says anything about inaccessible devices Previously, with QEMU 5.0.0 running a VM with the following command: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda arch-zoom.qcow2 -m 4G -device usb-ehci,id=ehci -device usb-host,bus=ehci.0,vendorid=0x04f2,productid=0xb449 -device intel-hda -device hda-duplex -vga virtio Would display something like the following: libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/002/004: Permission denied libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes. libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/002/004: Permission denied libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes. With insufficient permissions. QEMU 5.1.0 no longer displays anything. I did a git bisect and this is the result: [diego@thinkpad qemu]$ git bisect bad 9f815e83e983d247a3cd67579d2d9c1765adc644 is the first bad commit commit 9f815e83e983d247a3cd67579d2d9c1765adc644 Author: Gerd Hoffmann