Re: [Qemu-devel] usb and qemu

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 18:07, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> 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.

Right, that's what I meant.

Paul