[Spice-devel] Help on USB Sharing using Spice

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07/27/2014 07:49 AM, A.J.Pra$anth wrote:
> Hi all,
>          Is it possible to use spice usbredir in non vm environment to
> share USB devices ? In the usb redirection protocol document i has been
> mentioned like
> 
> "The most significant use case for this is taking a usb device attached to
> some machine "a" which acts as a client / viewer to a virtual machine "v"
> hosted on another machine "b", and make the usb device show up inside the
> virtual machine as if it were attached directly to the virtual machine "v"."
> 
> So my doubt  is it possible to export an USB device (physically attached to
> a machine running linux) over IP and import the device in a  machine(Not
> VM) which runs windows . If possible please share some "Howto" links.
> 
> Will it be right if i consider this as a replacement for the outdated
> http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ ?

This is possible through usbip, atm this is not possible through the spice
usbredir protocol as there are no usbredir-client implementations other then
qemu.

Regards,

Hans