From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: victortoso@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Half a usb-redir idea
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:10:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFHHm8CWwUUc2B7o@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210317062404.bkl5s4qmtaeg2yeo@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
* Gerd Hoffmann (kraxel@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:21:02PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've got a half-baked idea, which I thought might be worth mentioning.
> >
> > How hard would it be to give qemu a usbredir server rather than client?
>
> The usb part is probably not that hard. The devices are not standalone
> though. Tricky is the integration with the rest of qemu, with the input
> subsystem (hid devices), chardevs (usb-serial), network (usb-net), sound
> (usb-audio), block (usb-storage), ...
As long as this was still the qemu binary would that be a problem?
> ccid and u2f are probably easierst.
> mtp should not be hard too.
> maybe storage when limiting support to storage daemon.
> then it'll be tricky.
> maybe the multi-process qemu effort solves (some of) these problems.
It doesn't handle remote does it?
Dave
> take care,
> Gerd
>
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-16 17:21 Half a usb-redir idea Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-03-16 18:40 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-03-16 18:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-03-16 21:06 ` Marc-André Lureau
2021-03-17 6:30 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-03-17 6:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-03-17 9:10 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2021-03-17 10:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-03-17 10:41 ` Thanos Makatos
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