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+That 10 ms delay is apparently detrimental. It makes sense because USB is meant
+to be work over short distances. The protocol and even the electrical
+characteristics are built upon this assumption. USB frames are short in length
+and polled frequently, and almost no buffering is done in the background as it
+works closely on the hardware. Therefore, performance hit is inevitable and
+instability issues are expected when USB frames are passed over IP.
+
+The usb-redir devices are attached via qemu command line passthrough.
+virt-manager is not "aware" of this and it doesn't even try to see if there usb
+redirection is available.
+
+If you really have to use it , use
+[virt-viewer](https://virt-manager.org/download). It is available on most
+distros and even on Windows.
+
+### List of Devices
+Some usb devices don't like getting passed around over the network.
+
+| DEVICE | LOCAL | OVER IP |
+|-|-|-|
+| Mobile (Android, Apple) | 🫳kinda(unstable) | ❌NO |
+| Flash Drives | ✅YES | 🫳kinda(slow) |
+| HID(keyboard and mouse) | ✅YES | ✅YES |
+
+### Analysis: Android and IOS Devices
+TODO