Re: [PATCH RFC] libxl: Introduce functions to add and remove USB devices to an HVM guest

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 10/04/13 14:49, Stefan wrote:
> I've been following this thread with interest. Having USB passthrough
> for xl will certainly be an appreciated feature.
>
> Provided a USB-device structure, enabling PVUSB is almost only a matter
> of writing to the xenstore. Please have a look at this script:
> http://www.neobiker.de/wiki/index.php?title=XEN-PVUSB
>
> It's a shell script that does the work. Of course, there's also a python
> implementation in the GIT. Perhaps we could at least have a USB-device
> structure before the feature freeze? Can you make the code that we have
> available? I'd like to see if I can do something with it, instead of
> having to start from nothing.

I'm working hard to try to get "devicemodel" USB hot-plug working, and 
that involves getting a forward-compatible structure and everything 
ready to add PV as an optional protocol.

If things go as planned, then adding PVUSB support should just be a 
matter of:
* Adding a handler for PVUSB in libxl_usb.c:do_usb_add()
* Adding a command-line option to specify PVUSB even for HVM guests

I should have a rough draft ready for you to try to hack within 24 hours.

  -George