Re: Half a usb-redir idea

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* 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
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK