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List:       xen-users
Subject:    Re: [Xen-users] Physical H/W Port on Thin Client <-> Virtual
From:       Grahame Kelly <grahame () wildpossum ! com>
Date:       2009-07-29 14:23:04
Message-ID: A6D2C03A-71B2-4809-BEC7-0A323478C19B () wildpossum ! com
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Thanks for your input James.

I am especially looking forward to your implementation of passthrough  
USB.

In the meantime I will have a look around for Linux USB over IP, and  
give it a go.

Cheers. Grahame

On 29/07/2009, at 8:38 PM, James Harper wrote:

>>
>> Hi James.
>>
>> My DomU is XPproSP3, and the thin clients are currently Linux using
>> SSH booted off a USB stick.
>
> Hmmm... well USB over IP is in Linux, so you could maybe run the  
> USBoIP
> server on your thin client to export a USB device to the XP server.  
> I'm
> not sure what the level of support is for the Windows client of USBoIP
> but it does exist. Have a look in the staging directory of the current
> linux tree.
>
> Failing that, at some point I will implement passthrough USB into  
> GPLPV
> so you could use USBoIP on the thin client and Dom0 and then pass
> through the device from Dom0 to DomU.
>
> Sounds like a bit of mucking around.
>
> James


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