[Spice-devel] RFC: usb redirection over the network, interesting outside of spice?
Jan Kiszka
jan.kiszka at siemens.com
Mon Nov 29 04:40:09 PST 2010
Am 29.11.2010 11:11, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Now that I have usb-1.1 passthrough / local redirection support
> working reliably (see my patch sets for this), I'm going to start
> working on doing usb redirection support over the network.
>
> The idea here is that a usb device connected to machine a, will be
> available for use by the guest os running on host b (machine b).
>
> I'm working on this because it is something which we want / need
> for spice. I'm wondering if there is interest in this outside
> of spice ?
>
> I'm asking because at this moment in time the redirection support
> can probably be written in a way which abstracts the transport channel
> quite easily, allowing use outside of spice.
Do you know usbip [1]? I haven't looked at any details, but maybe there
is room for synergies.
Jan
[1] http://usbip.sourceforge.net/
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