diff --git a/install-pvusb-backend.sh b/install-pvusb-backend.sh
index 10274b2..6a7f7d9 100755
--- a/install-pvusb-backend.sh
+++ b/install-pvusb-backend.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # Copy files
 cp misc/usb_add_change /usr/lib/qubes/usb_add_change
 cp misc/usb_remove /usr/lib/qubes/usb_remove
-# FIXME cp misc/xen-vusb-helper.py /usr/lib/qubes/xen-vusb-helper.py
+cp misc/misc/vusb-ctl.py /usr/lib/qubes/misc/vusb-ctl.py
 cp misc/qubes_usb.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/99-qubes_usb.rules
 
 # Reload PVUSB backend and cleanup xenstore
diff --git a/misc/vusb-ctl.py b/misc/vusb-ctl.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d7e43c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/vusb-ctl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+##
+## Python script wrapper around xen.util.vusb_util bind_usb_device() and unbind_usb_device() methods
+## Run as root in usbvm
+##
+
+from xen.util import vusb_util
+import sys
+import os
+
+if len(sys.argv)!=3:
+    print 'usage: vusb-ctl <bind|unbind> device'
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+device=sys.argv[2]
+if sys.argv[1] == 'bind':
+    vusb_util.bind_usb_device(device)
+elif sys.argv[1] == 'ubind':
+    vusb_util.unbind_usb_device(device)
+else
+    print "Invalid command, must be 'bind' or 'unbind'"
+    sys.exit(1)
+