Re: [Xen-devel] Virtualization project idea

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'm an engineering student and is searching for a feasible project in
> > virtualization. I'd like to know if its possible to share USB devices
> > (flash drive, hard disk, mouse, keyboards etc) across guests and host
> > (VMs). Also, do you have any idea to extend it? Or any innovative idea
> > so that we can implement it.
> 
> Yes see comments wrt USB pass-through. What about implementing USB over
> IP? Possibly via a VNC extension so that remote USB devices can be
> attached to a VM. Since VNC provides a terminal with keyboard/mouse/gfx,
> why not USB too? I believe vbox has this functionality except using the
> RDP protocol.

That sounds pretty awesome. I think it might make sense to ask the QEMU
folks about this - they have some VNC experts on their mailing list.


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