[Spice-devel] [spice-xpi 1/4] Add 'Usb" property to the browser plugin

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Tue Apr 3 12:25:04 PDT 2012


Hey,

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 07:44:51PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Eh, my idea wrt sending usbredir enable / disable to the spice-client was to base
> it on the usb_listen_port setting, if usb_listen_port is set we are using old usb,
> so disable the new usb (thus send disabled to the client over the controller).

This part is not really interesting for upstream since old USB requires
proprietary bits, that's why it does not appear in the patches.

> If usb_listen_port is not set then the idea is to just let the client figure out
> itself if it should use usb. The actual decision of (the new) usb will be used or
> not is then made by the client based on the channel list it gets from the
> spice-server, if the vm the client is connecting to has usb channels, new usb will
> be enabled, otherwise it will not be be used.

Ah, I had missed this bit, which explains why I added the property, I'll
have to think more about this :)

Christophe
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