Hi All, As most of you know I'm working on usb redirection (making client usb devices accessible in guests over the network).
I thought it would be a good idea to write a short status report. So fat the following has been done: * written and posted a network protocol for usb redir. over the network, and send this to the list. * a 2nd revison is ready incorporating all comments from the mailinglist discussion. I'll post this to the list soon. * looked at using some pre-existing marshalling / demarshalling solution, specifically looked at google's protocol buffers. Not an option as this uses c++. There is a third party C version of protocol buffers, but this cannot deal with streaming input, making it not usable for usb redirection. * Designed an API for a transport independent, marshaller / demarshaller for the protocol. * Implemented a roll my own marshaller / demarshaller for the protocol. * Designed an API for a (transport indepenent) usb-host object/library which can be incorporated into spice-client, or a vnc client, etc. To easily add usb host capabilities to client-applications. * Implemented a skeleton version of the usb-host (still need to implement most usb redir commands). * Wrote a standalone usb-host application using standard tcp/ip[v4|v6] as transport, as proof of concept / for testing purposes: usbredirserver To Do: * Finish usb-host library * Write a test client (usb-guest) for testing * Implement a transport independent qemu usb-host talking the usb redir protocol. * Hook up a monitor command to hookup the qemu usb-redir-host connect to a usbredirserver * Test / debug / test * Integrate with Spice (use a spice channel as transport) * Integrate with vnc? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
