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Re: [Xen-devel] usb storage vitualization


  • To: mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Deepak Manohar <mjdeepak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:45:15 -0500
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, James Harper <jamesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Mark,

 If I remember correctly - u had mentioned that you had started
working on USB virtualization. How much progress have you made?

 I would be interested in contributing/learning to/from the USB
virtualization project.

 If you have time pls give me some detailed information on how you plan on
virtualizing USB. 

Deepak


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 01:44:25 +0000, Mark A. Williamson
<mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does it just work? USB storage devices would probably alter all the time
> > in terms of their major and minor numbers, and would come and go as hot
> > pluggable devices do. Maybe udev takes care of all this though.
> 
> Weeell, as long as you keep the thing plugged in while you're using it you
> shouldn't have any problems exporting the device like any other block device,
> so in that sense it should work fine.
> 
> Unfortunately, as you rightly point out, by the time you've rebooted dom0 and
> plugged / unplugged devices a few times you may find that your USB storage
> device has different major / minor.  On non-udev setups, it's quite possibly
> going to have a different device node altogether, which will mean your config
> file needs updating...
> 
> I tend to agree that udev should solve this problem, however, since you'll be
> able to configure that device to always bind to the same device node.
> Whenever you create the domain, it'll look up the major / minor associated
> with that device node and everything should work fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> > I ask because i'm interested in doing this too.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
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