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> Just wondering, is there any way to forward individual USB devices
> to domU's?
There was once, and one day there will be again.
> My desktop has a USB PCI card (2 ports) and onboard USB (8 ports);
> I'd like dom0 and two domU's to all have direct hardware access to
> various USB devices (mostly keyboards and mice; I've gotten my
> graphics cards to forward to the domU's via the published NVidia hack).
>
> Right now, the onboard USB only works in dom0; it breaks painfully
> when I try to use it in a domU. Otherwise, I'd just give one USB
> device to each domU and let dom0 deal with PS/2 keyboards/mice and no
> USB devices.
USB add-in cards, at least, have been reported successfully assigned to domUs
using PCI passthrough.
The USB back / front driver went out of date because it couldn't work once the
2.4 kernel support was broken. Expect a new 2.6-compatible driver to appear
at some point in the future, but workarounds will be necessary for the
meantime.
I think the HVM guests can have access to virtual USB - and possibly real -
devices, via QEmu's support for that, though...
HTH,
Mark
--
Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat? And no pedals!
Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
Mark: My wheel has a wheel!
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