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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: usb redirection over the network,
 interesting outside of spice?
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To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

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/

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