Re: [Xen-users] Status of USB or Firewire?

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd like to connect an external drive to one of my Xen boxes so I can send
> some backups that way; what's the current status of USB or Firewire under
> Xen? I'm ok hooking it up to either a dom0 or domU; doesn't make a big
> difference to me.

Either should work fine in dom0 on recent versions of 2.0 or unstable - there 
are no known problems with these.  You can use the PCI assignment if you want 
to give a domU direct access to a USB or Firewire controller and all its 
attached devices.  Either way, you'll need to add the appropriate drivers to 
your kernel config: we include USB support but not Firewire or USB Mass 
Storage drivers.

There's also code for plumbing individual USB devices through from dom0 to a 
domU but it'd not quite ready for primetime.  Plumbing individual Firewire 
devices through in a similar way would be possible - just needs someone to 
write the code ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

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