Re: [Xen-devel] usbpassthrough of xen-4.1.2

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 01:24:35PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Qian Hu <qianhu2011@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, everyone!
> >
> > I am working on the USB passthrough of Xen-4.1.2. My host OS  is Fedora 14
> > and the guest OS is win7.
> >
> > According to the wiki page(http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough),
> >
> > xen supports passthrough of usb device from dom0 to guests. I have tried the
> > Xen HVM guest qemu-dm usb1.1 emulation,
> >
> > by specifying "usb = 1" and "usbdevice = host:xxxx:yyyy". But, the mouse
> > could work, the keyboard and usb storage failed.
> 
> You need to give more details. How did it not work? Did it work in Linux?
> >
> > If I change the guest OS to winXP, it is surprising that only the usb
> > storage can be detected in the guest.
> >
> > I have also tried the PVUSB, it didn't work either.
> 
> Right, that is b/c it would only work with Linux.
>

Not really true. James Harper's GPLPV drivers do contain usbfront driver for 
Windows..

(not much tested, but it's there).

-- Pasi


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