On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > I'm an engineering student and is searching for a feasible project in > > > virtualization. I'd like to know if its possible to share USB devices > > > (flash drive, hard disk, mouse, keyboards etc) across guests and host > > > (VMs). Also, do you have any idea to extend it? Or any innovative idea > > > so that we can implement it. > > > > Yes see comments wrt USB pass-through. What about implementing USB over > > IP? Possibly via a VNC extension so that remote USB devices can be > > attached to a VM. Since VNC provides a terminal with keyboard/mouse/gfx, > > why not USB too? I believe vbox has this functionality except using the > > RDP protocol. > > That sounds pretty awesome. I think it might make sense to ask the QEMU > folks about this - they have some VNC experts on their mailing list. >
actually SPICE supports USB AFAIK and Gerd is adding SPICE support to qemu as we speak
