[Spice-devel] Status of USB redirection

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 03/06/2013 13:42, Hans de Goede ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/03/2013 12:43 PM, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> I'm interested in USB redirection support in SPICE. Can you answer 
>> the following questions me or point me to the docs where they are 
>> answered:
>>
>> * What is the current status ? Website says in progress. What exactly 
>> does and doesn't work?
>
> As long as you use a Linux client machine everything works. The 
> windows spice client USB
> support is not yet fully feature complete.
>
>> * Doesn USB 2.0/3.0 work?
>
> USB-2.0 work, simple USB-3.0 devices like usb 3.0 thumb drives work, 
> but will show up
> as a 2.0 device in the guest. Full 3.0 support is still a while away.
>
>> * How do I setup redirection (or I need just the spice connection) ?
>
> In virt-manager make sure you're using a spice connection, that the 
> usb-controller
> model is set to "Usb 2" and then add a number of USB Redirection 
> devices, (up to 4,
> having more then 1 allows you to redirect more then 1 USB device 
> simultaneously).
>
>> * Can SPICE and the USB redir code work on bare-metal or non KVM 
>> virtual machines ?
>
> No (not atm, and unlikely to change soon)
Work also on xen, used for one year on test system without problem.
I'll do the xl patch probably for xen 4.4.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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