From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmrwU-0005Qv-UQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:24:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KmrwR-0005L8-T5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:24:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59569 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KmrwR-0005KK-H7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:24:11 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47720) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmrwQ-0001sF-KO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:24:11 -0400 Message-ID: <48EA2D91.2060406@suse.de> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:24:01 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] USB over network References: <200810061309.10270.paul@codesourcery.com> <48EA1585.90804@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: gal@qumranet.com Gal Hammer wrote: >> I think it would be better to support a push instead of a pull model. >> For instance, something like: >> >> -usbdevice remote:host:port >> >> That connected to something that was listening on the machine that had >> the USB device. If you really wanted a server, I'd suggest a syntax >> like: >> >> -usbdevice remote:host:port,server >> > > Thanks for the idea. I'll consider it. Please note that there might be a > problem with firewalls or NAT when switching the direction from > vnc->qemu to qemu->vnc. > If you're worried about VNC, why not integrate this into the VNC protocol? Best case here would of course be to have it in VNC optionally. Alex