[Spice-devel] Can USB redirection be enabled on windows client?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dominique Rodrigues" <dominique.rodrigues at nanocloud.com>
> To: "Andrew Osborne" <andrew at intelligent-it-solutions.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:25:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Can USB redirection be enabled on windows client?
> 
> 
> I think there is a misunderstanding Andrew.

Andrew's question was about a "windows client", you are talking about a windows guest.
Today a Linux client to a Windows or Linux guests works fine.
The work to get a Windows client working against a Linux or Windows guest is still in progress.



> 
> The initial question was "if I work in a physical windows
> environment, is my spice-gtk client for windows able to enable USB
> redirection between my workstation and any virtual machine under
> Linux, Windows or whatever ?". Arnon replied that up to now, the
> anwser is no.
> 
> If you work under Linux (I personnaly use Mageia on my workstation
> and Debian on my servers), USB redirection can be done towards any
> virtual machine, Linux or Windows.
> 
> This works also for me with Windows Seven and Windows Server 2008. I
> have recompiled qemu-kvm with usbredir library for Mageia and
> Debian, and it works fine.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Dominique Rodrigues
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> 
> Le 18/03/2012 13:48, Andrew Osborne a écrit :
> 
> Hi Suyi
> 
> 
> Fedora 16 does have support for USB redirection in Windows XP as we
> have a School with 45 spice clients machines using it.
> 
> You will noticed a 20-30% increase in CPU usage with spice
> redirection on Fedora 16, although this should be see as a sandbox.
> 
> 
> 
> Here are some links that will help you set this up.
> http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11084.html Amador who runs this
> site as some good instructions.
> http://www.ucs.br/projetos/osdvt/index.php/Home Kind regards
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 18 Mar 2012, at 08:31, Arnon Gilboa <agilboa at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> spice-gtk windows client support for USB redir is still under
> development. Patches will be posted very soon.
> The old spicec client for windows supports USB redir using Incentives
> Pro's product.
> Arnon
> 
> Andrew Osborne wrote:
> 
> Works with Fedora 16 and WinXp as client
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 17 Mar 2012, at 18:03, Dominique Rodrigues
> <dominique.rodrigues at nanocloud.com> wrote:
> 
> If I remember well (TBC by spice developers), USB redirection works
> now only for a Linux client and should be a feature for Microsoft
> operating systems (no idea when).
> Dominique Rodrigues
> 
> <nanologo_small.png> Le 17/03/2012 18:48, wangsuyi640 a écrit :
> 
> Hi all:
>   Can USB redirection be enabled on windows client of spice?  There
>   is no option for me to choose set USB redirection on the windows
>   client.
> Can anyone help me ?  My client OS is windows XP 3.
> Thanks a lot!
> Yours Sinerely!
> suyi
> 
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