Am 29.11.2010 11:11, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > Now that I have usb-1.1 passthrough / local redirection support > working reliably (see my patch sets for this), I'm going to start > working on doing usb redirection support over the network. > > The idea here is that a usb device connected to machine a, will be > available for use by the guest os running on host b (machine b). > > I'm working on this because it is something which we want / need > for spice. I'm wondering if there is interest in this outside > of spice ? > > I'm asking because at this moment in time the redirection support > can probably be written in a way which abstracts the transport channel > quite easily, allowing use outside of spice.
Do you know usbip [1]? I haven't looked at any details, but maybe there is room for synergies. Jan [1] http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
