Re: [Qemu-devel] usb and qemu

[Mark Williamson]

> > Isn't there a USB patch floating around somewhere (emulates OHCI in the
> > guest)?
>
> Yes, but noone's written the code to wire it up to host devices. AFAIK it
> currently emulates the host controller and not much else.

Oh, OK that makes sense.

> Using the usb-over-ip protocol mentioned above seems like a nice way of
> getting it to talk to host USB devices in a host-independent way.

Actually that'd be a fairly neat trick...  As an alternative, IIRC there's a 
user space API for writing USB drivers under Linux - using that you could get 
access to both local and remote (IP encapsulated) USB devices, albeit not in 
a cross-platform (host-wise) way.

Cheers,
Mark