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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] usb and qemu
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Isn't there a USB patch floating around somewhere (emulates OHCI in the 
> > guest)?
> 
> Yes, but noone's written the code to wire it up to host devices. AFAIK it 
> currently emulates the host controller and not much else.
> 
> Using the usb-over-ip protocol mentioned above seems like a nice way of 
> getting it to talk to host USB devices in a host-independent way.

IIRC, one of the authors of the patch wanted to use usbip in qemu, so the guest
could see and use host usb devices (thinking that they were connected to the
virtual machine) without having to be aware of, or have support for, usbip.

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