From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Virtualization project idea Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20100827162132.GD1303@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1282921949.3731.117.camel@qabil.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282921949.3731.117.camel@qabil.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Gianni Tedesco Cc: Dhananjay Goel , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > > 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.