Can't redirect USB to QEMU-KVM guest.

Hi all,
Came across this email exchange that describes issue i'm having with USB redirection to guests: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-v.../msg00000.html
This is from February of this year and issue is still present. So i was thinking before going and creating bug report on bugzilla i would try my luck here, who knows, maybe i'm missing something very obvious.
Basically what i'm trying to do is to redirect connected to my system (host) USB drive to (qemu-kvm) virtual guest machine. From virtual machine viewer menu i select "Virtual Machine" -> " Redirect USB". Immediately i get list of all present USB devices, and the moment i chose one i get pop up window "USB redirection error" with following information:
Log of virtual machine is empty, tried starting libvirtd in verbose mode in hope to see more, but nothing.
some version info:
openSUSE Factory
qemu-kvm 2.1.0-2.4
libvirt-daemon-qemu 1.2.8-3.3
libusb-0_1-4 0.1.13-31.1
libusb-1_0-0 1.0.19-3.1

Can someone help me out here?
thnx in advance.