From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deepak Manohar Subject: Re: usb storage vitualization Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:45:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200411060144.25513.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: Deepak Manohar Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200411060144.25513.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, James Harper , Ian Pratt List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Mark, If I remember correctly - u had mentioned that you had started working on USB virtualization. How much progress have you made? I would be interested in contributing/learning to/from the USB virtualization project. If you have time pls give me some detailed information on how you plan on virtualizing USB.=20 Deepak On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 01:44:25 +0000, Mark A. Williamson wrote: > > Does it just work? USB storage devices would probably alter all the tim= e > > in terms of their major and minor numbers, and would come and go as hot > > pluggable devices do. Maybe udev takes care of all this though. >=20 > Weeell, as long as you keep the thing plugged in while you're using it yo= u > shouldn't have any problems exporting the device like any other block dev= ice, > so in that sense it should work fine. >=20 > Unfortunately, as you rightly point out, by the time you've rebooted dom0= and > plugged / unplugged devices a few times you may find that your USB storag= e > device has different major / minor. On non-udev setups, it's quite possi= bly > going to have a different device node altogether, which will mean your co= nfig > file needs updating... >=20 > I tend to agree that udev should solve this problem, however, since you'l= l be > able to configure that device to always bind to the same device node. > Whenever you create the domain, it'll look up the major / minor associate= d > with that device node and everything should work fine. >=20 > Cheers, > Mark >=20 > > I ask because i'm interested in doing this too. > > > > James > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id=12065&op=3DClick > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click