On 3/16/21 6:21 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > I've got a half-baked idea, which I thought might be worth mentioning. > > How hard would it be to give qemu a usbredir server rather than client? > It would have nothing guest visible but would look logically like the > front (?) half of a usb interface; then you could use all of the > existing qemu emulated and passthrough device code, to build a usb > hierarchy and present it to a remote qemu. > > You'd get the ability to do emulated USB CDROM/storage, audio, network > and the glue for host USB connection (and smart cards??) - all in one > client that you can then use for connecting to a remote qemu. > > The next step of that is to make something analogous to a > qemu-storage-daemon, but for USB, so you have something that can > do all that USB stuff without actually having any processors. > > The even crazier step would then be to add a VNC client, and then you > have an almost complete remote client.
Similarly to the out-of-process feature (on the same host)? Are you also interested in remote use (different host)? What about DMA accesses?
