Re: [Xen-devel] USB Passthrough support X86_64

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:39:36AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > 
> > USB passthrough requires the device model. There is currently no
> > provision in toolstack to spawn a device model on demand.
> > 
> > The easiest workaround is to add one device (vfb?) that would require
> > spawning a device model when creating the domain.
> > 
> >>
> >> i am trying to hotplug my usb. I haveint made any changes in the config
> >> file, as i assumed it wont be needed for hotplug, also i didnt have to do
> >> it for pci passthrough. Should i?
> >>
> >> Also, i cannot find any usbback and frond in my PC.
> 
> Uuh, yes. I've sent some patches to LKML for pvUSB frontend support
> about 2 years ago:
> 
> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg03436.html
> 
> I didn't find any time since then to address all comments. Maybe I
> should finish that task...
> 

That'd be awesome! :)

> The patches should still work fine, AFAIK.
> 

Good to know.


-- Pasi

> 
> Juergen
> 


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