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Half a usb-redir idea
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Half a usb-redir idea |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:21:02 +0000 |
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Mutt/2.0.5 (2021-01-21) |
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?
It would have nothing guest visible but would look logically like the
front (?) half of a usb interface; then you could use all of the
existing qemu emulated and passthrough device code, to build a usb
hierarchy and present it to a remote qemu.
You'd get the ability to do emulated USB CDROM/storage, audio, network
and the glue for host USB connection (and smart cards??) - all in one
client that you can then use for connecting to a remote qemu.
The next step of that is to make something analogous to a
qemu-storage-daemon, but for USB, so you have something that can
do all that USB stuff without actually having any processors.
The even crazier step would then be to add a VNC client, and then you
have an almost complete remote client.
Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
- Half a usb-redir idea,
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <=