Re: [Xen-devel] Xen and USB devices

[harry <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a headsup to say I'm still working on the USB split driver for
2.6.  I have a version which works very well for a snapshot of the
unstable tree from a few months ago and I'm currently in the process of
updating it to the new xenbus and xenstore interfaces.

My best guess at the moment is about 3 weeks before I have the code
working again on the latest unstable tree.  I have written a simple
high-level interdomain communication API and have ported the USB
back-end to this API.  I'm working on porting the FE.  After that I'll
implement the API using xenbus/xenstore grant-tables etc.

This split driver will allow you to allocate USB devices to guest
domains.

For the time being you can do what Mark suggested in his reply and map
the key as a block device.

Harry

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 18:39 -0400, sanjay kumar wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> This is probably discussed before but I am not able to find any
> information. 
> basically I am trying to access a USB key drive in guest VM. I am
> using the latest Xen-Unstable build. I see that when I attach the USB
> key to the computer it doesn't even get recognized by dom0. I see only
> this message in dmesg
> 
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> 
> I have three questions:
> 
> 1) Does Xen support USB devices? if yes, does it support USB devices
> in the default build?
> 2) What do I do to make Dom0 recognize the USB key?
> 3) what do I do to redirect this USB key to a guest VM? do I need to
> specify something in the guest VM's config file?
> 
> Could someone please answer these questions or point me to the answer?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sanjay
> 
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