From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42283 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PN0fH-0003vW-IO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:08:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PN0fF-0002D2-9T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:08:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PN0fF-0002CV-1o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:08:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4CF37C6A.9080409@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:11:54 +0100 From: Hans de Goede MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] RFC: usb redirection over the network, interesting outside of spice? List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org 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. Regards, Hans