[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Virtualization project idea
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:17:39PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote: > On 08/27/2010 03:08 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:33:35PM +0530, Dhananjay Goel wrote: >> >>> Yes, exactly. So, we wanted to know if it is possible to *share USB* >>> across VMs. >>> >>> >> I don't think USB protocol has been designed for *sharing*. >> I'm pretty certain only one computer/device/VM can use USB device at a time. >> >> -- Pasi >> >> > > Pasi, I agree. I think the think here is that Dhananjay confused the USB > device sharing with the file system sharing. I guess the USB protocol > was not designed for sharing nevertheless sharing the filesystem on a > USB stick is a completely different think. > > Dhananajay, you need to plug in the USB stick onto one computer (and > it's impossible to plug it into multiple computer at one time, of > course) and then setup the sharing. Everybody here is talking about the > hardware abstraction and virtualization and what you wrote is a > completely different thing - it's software-related and this has nothing > to do with the hardware emulation/abstraction what-so-ever. > > Considering the NFS and all the sharing protocols there was something > why it doesn't corrupt the data. I'm no expert on this subject but I > think this is because they run in the server-client mode. All the > clients are talking to the server and the server itself is one computer > that's having the just one operating system working with this particular > device - no matter what the underlaying device is - it may be everything > - USB stick, IDE/SCSI/SAS drive or just a relay workstation to save all > the data into one remote media (e.g. for replication). What I mean is > that the basic thing is that it's running on only one operating system > (because of it's connected to this one machine *only*) so it takes care > of everything and it's aware of the write-cache and data operations > being done to this media. > Yep. If you want to share files from the hypervisor-host (from USB stick or from actual disk) to the VMs you *can* do it today over-the-network (nfs,cifs,webdav,ftp) using the standard client-server tools that have been used for over 20 years. If you don't want to do it over-the-network, but somehow 'through' the hypervisor, then you'd need to build some kind of special filesystem protocol that is able to do the client-server communication over the hypervisor specific paths (xenbus etc). And have drivers for it in the hypervisor-host, and in the VMs. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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